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Obituaries of Nancy Tait
GB 249 OEDA/A/1/2 · Bestanddeel · 1975-2009
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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
GB 249 OEDA/K/1/2 · Bestanddeel · 1969-2007
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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.

GB 249 OEDA/E/2/6/5 · Bestanddeel · 1999-2007
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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
GB 249 OEDA/F/2/6/1 · Bestanddeel · 2005-2007
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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.

GB 249 OEDA/F/3/7 · Bestanddeel · 1962, 1983-2007
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence with Paul Cooper of Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) York. Includes an autopsy report and other medical information. Among topics covered are issues with York pathologists and coroners, and concerns over exposure to asbestos of British Rail passengers. Also a little correspondence re foundation of the York Asbestos Support Group in 2006. Papers include testimony by former British Rail coach builders and asbestos sprayers, and photocopies of confidential J W Roberts Ltd communications re fibre levels produced by the 'Limpet' asbestos cement spray process, 1962.

Paul Cooper long campaigned on behalf of former carriageworks employees who suffered from asbestos-related illnesses. He retired as secretary of the TGWU York branch c. 2010.