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  • correspondence chiefly with John Todd re how he and his fellow laggers are affected by asbestos and re his awareness raising campaign; also with the TGWU, health and safety experts, the media
  • correspondence with Margaret Bain (MP East Dunbartonshire) and John Healey (of Leven, Fife)
  • photocopies of John Todd's correspondence with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the environmental health department of the city of Glasgow, the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), various newspapers, and the TGWU
  • press coverage 1974-1976 and other papers

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/G/2/2/1 · File · Correspondence 1983-2002
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
  • correspondence and papers re Rita Ann Ashdown, mesothelioma victim, who had lived in a Council flat on the Harts Lane Estate in Barking, the former site of a Cape Asbestos factory. Includes particulars of claim Rita Ann Ashdown v. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2002; press coverage 2001-2003
  • correspondence and papers re Barbara Ann Mead, d. 2002 of mesothelioma: transcript of coroners proceedings
  • correspondence and papers re Barking, 1993-2001, including telephone memoranda, solicitors’ correspondence and press coverage
  • copy of a report by Dr Kevin Browne, 25 January 1995, on a recent claim brought against Cape by a Barking resident
  • correspondence with Peter Brady, Dublin, 1986, on his own case against Cape, including photocopy of minutes of a meeting of directors of Cape Insulation (Ireland) Ltd, 1977
  • SPAID correspondence re Barking 1983-1986
  • articles on SPAID‘s work 1984-1985, typescript of case notes Homerton University Hospital, Hackney, from Nancy Tait’s presentation (with Dr V J Harvey), ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983
  • reports (1983) on safety arrangements at Cape Asbestos, Barking, and copies of related records 1956-1968, received through Anthony T Mendelle via litigator Richard Meeran. Including photocopies of Cape Asbestos Barking Factory Annual Report 1961 & 1962, also report on a visit to Cape subsidiary plants in the USA (n.d.). Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking
Killer dust and British Rail
  • correspondence and papers (including press coverage) re British Rail 1985-1991
  • correspondence and press reports re Ralph Pickett, 1974-1978; Mr Pickett (d.1977) had worked in an engineering workshop of British Rail for 25 years and developed asbestosis
  • correspondence with F C Walmsley of British Rail Eastern region re effects of asbestos dust, 1975
Providing information

Six series, each of them representing a type of information service provided by SPAID / OEDA. As follows:

  • fielding occupational and environmental health enquiries
  • publications by the organisation
  • display boards and posters generated for use at meetings, conferences and around the office
  • responses to requests for information from solicitors
  • responses to requests for information from the media

The section concludes with a small series relating to compensation claims against the Johns-Manville Corporation / the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust.

Turner & Newall 1940s-1998

Papers (including press coverage) documenting Turner & Newall plc activities, attitudes to health and safety, working conditions (etc.) 1940s-1998. Includes:

  • copy judgement (1998) in Eileen Hare (suing as executrix of Joseph Arthur Hartles and Annie Hartles, both deceased) v. TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Liverpool County Court
  • T&N gas contracts (UK) 1995-1998
  • annotated copy of draft judgement (1 May 1996) in David Stanley Durham v. T&N plc and Annette Beryl Durham v. T&N plc, Court of Appeal
  • statement by former engineer Peter Turnbull Smith (September 1993) on his working history and the impact of asbestos exposure on his health; the statement prompted Nancy Tait to ask ‘do we have a T&N file? Other than Chace [sic]. Please start one’
  • copy of House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee, ‘Competitiveness of UK manufacturing industry: minutes of evidence Wednesday 23 June 1993: Rover Group plc – Mr George Simpson, T&N plc – Mr Colin Hope’
  • copy of ‘T&N 1982 review’
  • photocopy ‘Selected written evidence submitted to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos 1976-77’, pp. 134-147, 'The production and use of Turner & Newall asbestos products'

Copies of judgements, legal opinions, advice on liability, occasionally dependancy schedules, affidavits, particulars of claim (including clinical information), skeleton arguments in preparation of a case, witness statements, transcripts of proceedings and press coverage. In alphabetical order.

  • front matter includes list of settlements (asbestos related, asthma, Berylium related) as well as summaries of selected judgements 1961-1984
  • occasional notes suggest that SPAID/OEDA supplied copies of judgements for a fee
'Individual' Correspondence

Correspondence, filed in alphabetical order, A-Z by surname, dating from 1980-1983.
The annotations at the top of the letters read 'Individual correspondence' and the surname of the correspondent.

Includes topics of correspondence such as:
-building a network of contacts to support cases
-subscriptions to SPAID news
-thanks to Moira Anderson for her programme on asbestos
-blue asbestos research
-EEC Directives
-the presence of asbestos in buildings
-SPAID fellowship
-the SPAID newsletter
-people seeking information for cases
-students seeking information for dissertations

Mainly copies of outgoing correspondence but some incoming correspondence.