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Copies of Hansard with annotations on the cover:

• House of Lords 4 August 1975: 'Avebury | Lung cancer | Meso'
• House of Lords 23 October 1975: 'For N. Tait please | Mesothelioma research'
• House of Commons 20 May 1976: '651 Beer | 699 Asbestos packaging | 721 Pneu[moconiosis]'
• House of Commons 21 November 1977: '467 taken for photocopy - asbestos | Max Madden'
• House of Commons 22 November 1977: '591/2 taken for p.copy - Asbestos | 949 early diag: asbestosis'
• House of Commons 2 May 1978: '76. 2 May Build safely with asbestos'

Correspondence 1975-1978, chiefly with North American contacts, re Nancy Tait's research project to investigate the occupational and environmental health threats posed by asbestos.

At the time Tait's contacts with North American asbestos experts included Irving Selikoff, Philip E Enterline and Barry I Castleman. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society helped Tait visit the United States and Canada in July 1977.

Copy of program and a few other papers relating to the xixth International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978.

Includes abstract of joint presentation by Nancy Tait and patient activist Jean Robinson on the inadequacies of then present methods of compiling statistics for occupational disease and on how regulations governing the award of industrial injury benefits inhibit the investigation of occupational risks that affect workers and their families.

Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She was a patient activist and 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).

• covering correspondence
• photocopy (unmarked) of Claude Barbeau & R L Ledoux (1979) ‘Short course in mineralogical techniques of asbestos determination’ (Toronto Mineralogical Association of Canada, Québec)

Miscellaneous images found within the ring binder labelled 'Photographs':
-3 items mounted onto both sides of A4 paper: two greetings cards sent to Nancy from the House of Commons with illustrated views of Westminster Palace on the front, and an image of the Yacht 'Britannia' on the reverse, with the caption: 'Asbestos Removed Britannia, House of Commons'

Typescript and offprint of Nancy Tait, Jean Robinson and John Heath (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, in ‘Arh hig rada toksikol ['Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology']’ 30 (supplement), 1515-1521.

This was based on a presentation at the xix International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978.

Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She was a patient activist and 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).

Correspondence and papers re the work of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos (ACA / Simpson Committee).

Originally structured as follows:

• drafts for discussion, correspondence re proceedings
• ‘Hansard’
• ‘Press’
• ‘Letters’ [this was empty]
• ‘General information’
• ‘Commission members’
• ‘Oral evidence’ (including that of Nancy Tait and Jean Robinson, Turner & Newall, and Eternit)
• ‘Written evidence’

Copy of typescript of Nancy Tait's presentation 'The effect of differing concepts of the criteria that should be used for the diagnosis of asbestos disease', presented at the International Symposium on the Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres, Lyon, 25-27 September 1979.

This was found in a file relating to asbestos victims from the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU).

• copy of article ‘Asbestos – the most lethal of a safety materials’, unidentified source, c.1974
• copy of ‘Killer dust in school’, in ‘The Teacher’ 30 April 1976
• copy of ‘Dust danger shuts two more’, in ‘The Teacher’ 14 May 1976
• copy of ‘Dust probe’, in ‘Building Design’ 21 May 1976
• copy of ‘Alert over school buildings’, in ‘Building Design’ 14 January 1977
• copy of ‘Sennet’ (London’s student paper) 14 February 1979, marked ‘not asbestos’

Original correspondence with and re asbestos affected individuals and/or members of their families, in alphabetical order (by surname of case), A-G. Also a little press coverage on asbestos cases 1969-1976.

Occasionally includes copies of death certificates; medical reports; DSS/DHSS applications.

Cases H-Z appear to be lost.

Folders 3 & 4 contain original correspondence and papers relating to specific cases such as 'Nationwide', 'Fenn', 'Adams', Curtis', 'Beare', Green' 'Grant'. Includes: case outcomes; copies of press clippings; letters appealing for help; and case notes.

Photocopies of mainly outgoing correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Mainly January-April 1979 and mainly a mailshot inviting to a meeting on asbestos on 10 March 1979, at the Friends House, Euston. Includes

• news sheet of the North London Health & Safety Group reporting on its first public conference on 3 March 1979 and announcing further meetings, such as 'Should asbestos be banned?', 10 April 1979
• an exchange with Dr Susan M Daum MD re her comment at the recent conference in Dubrovnik that the pathology of disease associated with zeolite was different from that associated with asbestos

The Dubrovnik conference was the 19th International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978. Nancy Tait attended the meeting and presented a paper, published jointly with Jean Robinson and John Heath; see OEDA/C/2/3 and OEDA/F/6/1/1.

Poster announcing a seminar on occupational disease, 13-14 September 1979, Chicago.

Issued by the US Department of Labour.

Correspondence with Raymond Macdonald, Albert Blyghton, Jim Heggie, and other representatives of the TGWU. Further includes correspondence with J Milne, General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

During the mid-1980s Raymond Macdonald's name appears among the trustees on SPAID's letter head.

Press coverage, January to December 1979. In reverse chronological order. Original cuttings mostly mounted.

Mainly on asbestos (all aspects - impact on health, state of the industry, regulation, accountability of lawyers, etc) but also covers other themes, notably nuclear power, x-rays, etc.

Copy of offprint Nancy Tait (1980) 'The effect of differing concepts of the criteria that should be used for the diagnosis of asbestos disease', in 'Biological effects of mineral fibres' vol. 2, ed. J C Wagner (Lyon: IARC Publications No 30).

The article argued that the work of SPAID "suggests that arbitrary rules, operated for the purpose of deciding which cases may benefit from employment insurance schemes, are adding to the recognized problems connected with the diagnosis of asbestos disease. As a result, statistics are unrealistic and do not include cases which show not only that workers in the asbestos manufacturing industry are at risk, but that asbestos, including chrysotile, affects the health of the community."