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Copies of Nancy Tait (2002), 'Asbestos fibres in lung tissue: an illustrated appraisal of analysis using a Transmission Electron Microscope'. Includes annotated drafts.

Correspondence and papers re the IIAC report reviewing the prescription of asbestos-related diseases (ADR), Cm 6553. Presented to Parliament in February 2005 and published in July 2005, the report admitted that asbestos can lead to lung cancer without asbestosis being present. It was taken to signal UK Government changes to the compensation scheme for asbestos-related lung cancer.

Structured as follows:
-‘IIAC after publication’: correspondence arising (with lawyers, trade unionists, representatives of victims support groups), including congratulatory letters and local press coverage celebrating Nancy Tait for her campaign work

• ‘Media inc Rory O’Neill’: correspondence re errors in graphs used in the report
• ‘LKA Henderson’: correspondence with Laurie Kazan-Allen and a much annotated copy of D W Henderson et al. (2004) ‘After Helsinki: a multidisciplinary review of the relationship between asbestos exposure and lung cancer, with emphasis on studies published during 1997-2004'
• ‘Ministers’ and ‘MPs’: a few press clippings and some incoming correspondence
• ‘Before publication’: correspondence chiefly re delays in the production and publication of the report, January-July 2005. Includes correspondence with Prof A J Newman Taylor (chairman of the IIAC) and a number of MPs, as well as a draft of the IIAC report dated January 2005
• ‘Hugh Robertson’: correspondence with Robertson, Owen Tudor's successor as senior health & safety policy officer of the TUC. Includes draft of the report dated November 2004
• ‘N Tait’: materials from Nancy Tait's mailshots in October 2002 and spring 2004

Also includes copies of

• IIAC ‘Annual report', 2003/4, 2004/5, 2005/6
• Cm 6553 with manually inserted corrected graphs

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage) arising from articles by Christopher Booker, in particular the article in The Sunday Telegraph, 17 March 2002, discussing the debate on health & safety at work (especially asbestos) in the House of Commons, 14 March 2002. Includes:

• OEDA letters/faxes to the editor of The Sunday Telegraph
• letter to Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
• section with copies of Booker's articles re asbestos, January-October 2002

Indicates that OEDA at that stage had a website.

Correspondence and papers on Court of Appeal ruling preventing compensation to workers exposed to asbestos dust by more than one employer. Includes letter from Nancy Tait, Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (OEDA).

Correspondence re application (for an unspecified sum) for Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)'s Special Grant Programme.

The application was unsuccessful.

Recording of Julie Burchill, probably on the subject of her father's death from mesothelioma.

• Press coverage
• Transcript of interview by Sunday Times with Michael Meacher, Environment Minister, about Earth Summit, August 2002

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 2002.

Bright red cover, 22 x 15.5 cm.

Copy of OEDA annual report 2002-2003 and minutes of the OEDA annual general meeting, 26 September 2002.

Copy of Nancy Tait (October 2002) 'The diagnosis of asbestos-related lung cancer (PDD8)'. Also includes

• photocopy of typescript ‘A call for a review of the extent of asbestos related diseases among ethnic minorities in the greater London boroughs’, c.2000, which may have been authored by Tait's colleague (and fellow member of the OEDA Management Committee), Joan Griffith
• draft (n.d.) of 'Pathology of asbestos diseases: problems identified by N. Tait'

This publication was one output of Nancy Tait's research, at the time, into the discrepancy between recorded and expected deaths from asbestos-related lung cancer. In February 2003, she presented on the topic to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) research working group.

Correspondence and papers (including reports and research papers 1965-2002) re the IIAC Research Working Group meeting, 13 February 2003, to which Nancy Tait was invited to present her evidence. Previously, Tait had submitted three OEDA reports, 'Asbestos to challenge fibre counts', 'Asbestos fibres in lung tissue' (both 2002) and the earlier 'The diagnosis of asbestos-related lung cancer PDD8' (2001/2002).

Includes material from Tait's submissions, annotated current research papers and contemporary literature examining Sir Richard Doll’s career and questioning his authority. Older publications contained in this aggregation include:

• photocopy of Nancy Tait's paper (with Dr V J Harvey) (1983) 'Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital - a preliminary report', presented at the Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester
• photocopy of evidence presented by Nancy Tait and Jean Robinson to the Simpson Committee, 28 June 1977; on Jean Robinson see below
• extensively marked photocopy of H A Anderson et al. (1976) ‘Household-contact asbestos neoplastic risk’
• photocopy of M Newhouse and H Thompson (1965) 'Mesothelioma of pleura and peritoneum following exposure to asbestos in the London area'

Patient activist Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Copies of letters to Scottish politicians.

Information pack containing programme, speakers’ details, delegate list and presentations by Nigel Tomkins, Dr Robin Rudd, Andrew Morgan (Field Fisher Waterhouse), and others. It remains unclear whether anyone from OEDA attended.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Anthony Coombs, in reverse chronological order. Includes

• colour print-out of Coombs’ new website and guide on ‘Mesothelioma compensation’ (c.2005)
• photocopy of conference workbook ‘Mealey’s asbestos liability forum’ 17-18 November 2005

After 25 years with John Pickering & Partners, Coombs set up as an independent solicitor ('Claimant Asbestos Solicitor') in 2005.

Correspondence with John Pickering & Partners LLP, organised by topic:

• shipping
• compensation (including re compensation bill 2005)
• Cape plc (re group action against the company on behalf of South African miners)
• fibre counts
• the Fairchild judgement
• Association of British Insurers (ABI); includes copy of ABI's ‘Guidelines for apportioning and handling employers liability mesothelioma claims’ (2003)
• restructuring of Zurich Insurance Company
• T&N, including correspondence with the administrators of T&N