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Obituaries of Nancy Tait collected by her colleague and friend Joan Griffiths. Further includes:

• correspondence between Nancy Tait and British Rail over her ticket, 1975, illustrating her tenaciousness
• Joan Griffiths' compilation on Nancy Tait's achievements
• Nancy Tait's questionnaire for the research project 'Citizen involvement in health care: meanings, motivations and means', Health in Partnership Project, Department of Health, 2001

Offprints, preprints, photocopies, typescripts of drafts (etc.) of scientific papers.

Arranged alphabetically by title of publication.

Index cards of offprints, preprints, photocopies, typescripts of drafts (etc.) of scientific papers.

Arranged alphabetically by title of publication.

Index cards of authors of offprints, preprints, photocopies, typescripts of drafts (etc.) of scientific papers.

Arranged alphabetically by name of author.

Overview of file locations in the OEDA office, 28 February 2007.

Collection of leaflets arranged in alphabetical order by reference code, beginning with BAL1 ('Tell us about it') and ending with Z3 ('Compensation recovery scheme'). Within leaflet type, in reverse chronological order.

Replicates the original arrangement. Note however that Nancy Tait's instructions for how new leaflets were to be listed was 'by title - alphabetically' and to 'give leaflet number & date, i.e. (1) Attendance allowance, (2) DS 702, (3) Nov 2002'.

SPAID/OEDA collected benefits leaflets widely. Retained here are those relating directly to the organisation's core activities, such as NI 3 ('If you have pneumoconiosis or byssinosis’) or FB 29 ('Help if someone dies’), while leaflets with no specific relationship with the charity, such as D11 ('NHS dental treatment’) or CWP1 ('Extra help with heating costs’) have been disposed of.

Includes:

• typescript list of judgements (two versions), c.1997, in alphabetical order (by name of plaintiff)
• handwritten list of judgements to 2007, in no particular order
• typescript list of legal opinions, c.1997, in alphabetical order (by name of plaintiff), and edited version c.2004
• list of solicitors

Printouts of news items distributed through the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) Newswatch e-list.

Originally filed "Jonathan Bennett" after the Public Affairs Director of NYCOSH.

Annotated copies of the Rowley Ashworth Solicitors’ annual review, 1998-2007.

Incomplete set: 1999 and 2000 are missing.

Mainly correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re asbestos-related queries. Very occasionally the information flows in the opposite direction i.e. SPAID / OEDA asks questions.

Front matter includes material on access to medical records and how long hospitals keep records.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and press cuttings re the threat posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. Includes:

• OEDA mailshot, May 2003, encouraging c.60 MPs to raise the point that the UK had the highest incidence of MRSA in Europe in the upcoming parliamentary debate
• correspondence with BBC contacts and with Microgenix Ltd, air purification experts
• copy of National Audit Office’s report (February 2000) ‘The management and control of hospital acquired infection in acute NHS trusts in England’
• press coverage on MRSA (in the UK) 1999-2007

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Robert Pointer, Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group / Barrow Asbestos-related Disease Support Group, re awareness-raising concerning the dangers of asbestos. Starts with request Pointer for information to be used at TUC annual conference, later foundation asbestos victims support group.

Correspondence with and re CancerLink 1984-2007, in reverse chronological order. Includes leaflets and brochures of the charity, conference information, etc.

Correspondence and papers. Includes National Hazards Conference announcements, minutes of meetings of the National Hazards Campaign, occasionally minutes of the European Work Hazards Network Steering Group, successive versions of Hazards Campaign Charter.

Correspondence including telephone memoranda re various inquiries relating to asbestos in housing. Includes press cuttings, reports.

Further includes

• Commission for Local Administration in England (May 1997) ‘Report on an investigation into complaint No 95/A/2081 against London Borough of Tower Hamlets’
• copy Department of the Environment [c.1992] ‘Green rights and responsibilities: a citizen’s guide to the environment'
• minutes of a meeting of the tenants re Bermuda Road flats, Cambridge, 1988