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Organisatorial correspondence and papers.

Papers and correspondence with White Lung Association (WLA), 1984-1991 and 1994-2000. From 1996 Mrs Barbara Zeluck is the main correspondent. Includes

• WLA asbestos update, May 1995 to September 1998 (incomplete set)
• opinion of Judge Becker, in Georgine v. Amchem Prod Inc, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (5 October 1996)
• WLA leaflet [1995] 'Differences between British and US compensation systems'
  Also research papers, among them:
• H Vinke and T Wilthagen [1994] 'The non-mobilization of law: asbestos victims in the Netherlands'
• L C Oliver et al. (1991) 'Asbestos-related disease in public school custodians'
• Paul W MacAvoy (January 1982) ‘Working paper series C: the economic consequences of asbestos-related disease’

Barbara Zeluck (née Adler, 1923-2010) was an American socialist, occupational health and safety campaigner, and civil rights activist.

Correspondence with GMBATU Health & Safety officers (in particular David Gee), and papers. Includes:

• questionnaire for survey of health hazards and chemical substances in the food industry 1986
• typescript summarising GMBATU's take on R Doll & J Peto (1985) ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos - the risk of asbestos in buildings’ (Doll/Peto Report)
• typescript summarising GMBATU's view of the consultative document (1985) ‘Control of asbestos at work: draft regulations and draft approved code of practice’
• typescript article ‘How self-regulation fails to protect workers – the asbestos story’ (1984)
• GMBATU (1984) ‘Progress report on fibrous dust campaign 1980-1984’
• drafts of HSE leaflet on asbestos brake linings, 1984
• draft GMBATU guide (1984) ‘The extent and characteristics of asbestos diseases – a guide for doctors, solicitors, union officials & exposed workers’ (1984)
• draft GMBATU 'TIE pamphlet', 1984; TIE being thermal insulation engineers, also known as laggers
• typescript GMBATU (1984) 'Draft TUC leaflet on asbestos'
• press coverage
• a little case correspondence

Card index of SPAID/OEDA cases, in alphabetical order (by surname of individual afflicted and family member). In some cases cross-referenced to case number or 'Q' file (OEDA/C/1/2); see link below.

Printout of the OEDA case database in the form of a table, 28 July 2003. 171 pp, listing cases 2-3650 (with gaps) and cases 4001-10,000 (with extensive gaps), followed by a few rows with anomalous case numbers. This and other indicators suggest that there may have been a technical problem with the database.

The printout appears to have been generated to support OEDA's case for continued funding from Association of London Government (ALG; formerly the London Boroughs Grant Unit, LBGU), the organisation's main source of funding since 1983.

Includes:

• note from Nancy Tait proposing to use this printout, rather than the electronic database, to record important updates henceforth
• overview of codes and what each column in the database is intended for

Poster reporting on six of the 42 new cases handled by SPAID since October 1983:

• 48 year old maintenance fitter diagnosed with mesothelioma, after only three years occasional contact with asbestos in naval dockyards
• 69 year old mesothelioma patient who worked for Turner & Newall, Manchester, for one year, 30 years ago
• 48 year old mesothelioma patient who came in contact with asbestos during an apprenticeship with ICI, likewise 30 years ago
• 42 year old former merchant seaman and cargo inspector at Plymouth docks, on severe pain medication for his mesothelioma
• 45 year old electrical engineer diagnosed with mesothelioma

Display board visualising an ideal SPAID conference stand.

Papers and a little covering correspondence re the proposed US Senate bill ‘to amend the Toxic Substance Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products’ and the contemporary asbestos compensation crisis in the US. Includes

• copy of Senator Murray’s proposed bill
• copies of Judge Griffin B Bell’s June 2002 speeches on asbestos litigation and judicial leadership

In Nancy Tait's circles, people monitoring these developments included Own Tudor, Laurie Kazan-Allen and Adrian Budgeon.

Correspondence re obtaining a copy of the commission’s report, excerpts from the report, copy of Terence G Ison (1982) ‘Workers’ compensation and asbestos in Ontario: a commentary on the report [to the Royal Commission …] of Peter S Barth’

Display board alleging that 'cowboy operators' are putting the community at risk, featuring colour photographs of the Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Dalmuir. Includes a black and white photograph captioned ‘Clydeside Turner and Newall’s old factory’.

Includes SPAID and OEDA label.

Includes

• Nancy Tait’s notes for her presentation; also notes of the conference
• copy of Tait et al. (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, originally presented at Dubrovnik
• copy of The Greens in the European Parliament (1993) ‘The dark side of the asbestos story: presented within the frame of “Bastamiantos“ international symposium on asbestos Milan, April 1993’

Also earlier correspondence with Italian and French anti-asbestos activists (among them Italo Busto) and correspondence arising, re asbestos in railway carriages, work of the ‘Ban Asbestos’ Federation, etc.

Reportedly the conference proceedings were published as 'Atti del Convegno internazionale Bastamianto organizzato da BAEF – Ban Asbestos European Federation, Milano 17-18 aprile 1993', Ban Asbestos European Federation, S. E., Milan, 1994. It is unclear whether Nancy Tait's paper is included.

Correspondence arising from the conference ‘The third wave of asbestos disease’ (referred to by Nancy Tait as "Selikoff's conference") and papers. Includes:

• conference programme, annotated
• report of the exchange between Nancy Tait and Dr Abida Haque at the conference
• Tait's news release on her return from New York and alerts to press contacts
• photocopies of scientific papers 1974-1996 exploring transfer of asbestos to unborn children
• copy of conference proceedings' table of content

There also is a video recording of the conference; see link below.

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Health facts' series.

Red notebook, previously used to list history of science literature c.1900-1960. Repurposed to record names, occasionally also addresses, of individuals with some asbestos affiliation (suffering from an asbestos-related disease, related to a victim, worried about asbestos in the home, etc.). It is unclear whether the compilation is based solely on SPAID clients or whether it also includes cases that came to the organisation's attention solely through media reports and similar.

Ordered by first letter of surname.