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GB 249 OEDA/K/6/2 · Bestanddeel · 1965-1967
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Set of photocopies from 'The Times' 1965-1967, with a listing summarising each article:

  • (A) Wed 17 Mar 1965 p. 7: “research into hazards of asbestos”
  • (B) Sat 12 Jun 1965 p. 8: “Asbestos poisoning from overalls”
  • (C) Fri 15 Apr 1966 p. 15: “Science and Medicine: Examining the hazards to health of asbestos”
  • (D) Mon 4 Jul 1966 p. 10: “Village tips case for inquiry”
  • (E) Fri 11 Apr 1967 p. 2: “Lung risks, so trains drop asbestos”
  • (F) Sat 20 May 1967 p. 15: “New health guard for asbestos workers”
  • (G)-(J) Tu 28 Nov 1967 – special supplement on asbestos p. I-IV
  • copy of P G Harries’ thesis, submitted for Degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of London
  • SPAID notes and excerpts (several hands) resulting from mining the thesis, c.1985
    -original copy of P G Harries' thesis

Peter Gordon Harries, 1931-2006, assistant medical officer in Devonport Dockyard from 1964, Surgeon Commander, Royal Navy, 1966-1972. Recipient of the Rene Barthe International Occupational Health Prize, 1972.

Individuals
GB 249 OEDA/A/6/3 · Bestanddeel · 1959-1970s
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Photographs of individuals, some named.
Photographs as follows:
-black and white group photograph, depicting a meeting, with caption on the reverse: 'Mr Bill Simpson, Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission and the Advisory Committee on Asbestos starts the proceedings at the first of the Advisory Committee's three open meetings'
-2 mounted colour photographs of a man in a factory setting, and a view of a factory floor, both labelled 'Mr A G Emberton', c1970s
-2 black and white portrait photographs mounted on either side of A4 paper: one labelled 'Roy Slattery Hebden Bridge' and the other labelled 'Brian Schnacke "Sometimes we stood a foot deep in the dust"'
-1 colour and 1 black and white photograph mounted on A4 paper. Colour photograph depicts an employee driving a fork lift truck, unlabelled. The black and white photograph depicts a gentleman operating a table saw and is labelled 'Mr O'Neill, June 1959'
-black and white portrait photograph mounted on A4 paper labelled 'Mereweather, H' S Ex'

Copy of the remarks of Alex A. Cross, Chairman of the Standing Committee, International Asbestos Information Conference, and Philip E. Enterline, Professor of Biostatics at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, at the Asbestos Information Association Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, 8-9 September 1976.

Press cuttings to April 1977
GB 249 OEDA/K/6/1/1 · Bestanddeel · 1974-1977
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Press coverage, foliated and structured by subject: asbestos; cancer generally; health and safety generally; radiation / nuclear; justice and information; miscellaneous. Arranged in reverse order of foliation.

Front matter includes tables of systematically extracted case information from press reports (often with named cause of death).

The first 45 folios are missing. These originally included information on William Ashton Tait.

  • copy of Nancy Tait (1977) 'Asbestos kills: with a new introduction'
  • separate booklets of the new introduction
    -copy of paper 'Asbestos Kills. New Developments, April 1977' (11 pages)

Nancy Tait's report 'Asbestos kills' originally appeared in 1976 with the help of the Silbury Fund, a charitable trust established in 1973.

The OEDA archive contained neither a copy of the first edition nor records relating to its creation or the attention surrounding its publication. Photocopied material found elsewhere in the collection indicates that 'Asbestos kills' was launched at a press conference at the House of Lords on 27 April 1976 and that it was much publicized by the media, including in 'Nationwide', a BBC news and current affairs television programme broadcast on BBC 1 each weekday following the early evening news.

Reportedly the updated version of 'Asbestos kills', including the 'New facts' section, came out in May 1977. It covered Nancy Tait's travels as a Churchill Fellow during the summer of 1976.

GB 249 OEDA/E/1/1 · Bestanddeel · 1976-1977
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Photocopies of correspondence and papers (including press cuttings), in reverse chronological order. Includes

  • Nancy Tait's call, in March 1977, for an Asbestos Protection Trust to be set up with the aim of providing "information and sympathetic advice [to those] who develop asbestos diseases and their families", and "information and encouragement [to] individuals and organisations working to ensure the safety of those using asbestos and its substitutes"
  • correspondence with future trustees of SPAID, among other things seeking advice on the Health & Safety Commission's (HSC) reluctance to accept Tait's evidence
  • correspondence with experts (Prof. P C Elmes of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit at Penarth, Prof. I Selikoff, Prof. P E Enterline (biostatistician at the University of Pittsburgh), Barry Castleman, Prof. Patrick Lawther of the MRC Air Pollution Unit); with the asbestos industry (Turner & Newall, the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), Cape Industries); with trade union representatives including the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, and re Judge Rene Beaudry's 393-page preliminary report on the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada; according to Beaudry the provincial asbestos limit to be enforced in 1978 was inadequate
  • correspondence relating to a television appearance during which Tait showed a cooking mat with an asbestos warning label, transmitted late January / early February 1977, and correspondence arising from a radio broadcast featuring Tait on asbestos (BBC 'World this weekend', 30 January 1977)
  • a little correspondence with families of individuals suffering from asbestos-related disease
  • copy of Tait's 'Asbestos press release', spring 1977
GB 249 OEDA/D/1/3 · Bestanddeel · 1975-1978
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence 1975-1978, chiefly with North American contacts, re Nancy Tait's research project to investigate the occupational and environmental health threats posed by asbestos.

At the time Tait's contacts with North American asbestos experts included Irving Selikoff, Philip E Enterline and Barry I Castleman. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society helped Tait visit the United States and Canada in July 1977.