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Conference programme and abstracts of talks; notes taken at conference by Dalton.

Papers on testimony in 1907 of Dr. Montague Murray, senior physician at Charing Cross Hospital, to Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.

Includes Dalton’s notes for the article.

Documentary investigating wages and conditions of work.

Concerns Michael Ryan’s campaign against workplace stress at the Environment Agency.

Correspondence between Dalton and Patrick Herman, co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network. Includes article by Dalton entitled ‘Fighting asbestos hazards in the UK’ for Ban Asbestos Network’s ‘Black Book on Asbestos’.

Communications and leaflets from Clydebank Asbestos Group. Includes paper about Chester Street financial scandal.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Australia. Includes:

• press cuttings, mostly about sufferers of asbestos-related disease
• ‘Asbestos Kills’ - guide to standards for asbestos removal published by Construction and General Division of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
• copy of Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia booklet

Academic papers and reports collected by Dalton on a variety of environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Topics include factory inspectors, environmental health risk assessment and risk management, environmental regulation, health and safety regulation, dust control, ventilation, local exhaust systems, compressed air spraying, respiratory protection, asthma, cardiovascular disease, industrial lead poisoning, manual handling, musculoskeletal disorders, repetitive strain injuries, work-related stress, shiftwork and long working hours, sickness absence, work-related deaths, noise, cleaning agents, dry-cleaning solvents, hazardous waste treatment, municipal waste management, recycling, man-made mineral fibres, organophosphates, ethics in occupational medicine, MRSA, air pollution, and the health of oil workers, miners, paper-recycling workers and workers in sewage treatment works.

Many of the works are annotated by Dalton.