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Papers, press clippings, and photographs relating to asbestos in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Includes:
-brief notes relating to asbestos cases in Barking
-some handwritten research notes about topics such as asbestos found in Barking and waste disposal procedures
-correspondence about Barking cases of asbestos and the Cape factory
-a lot of notes and correspondence about a case of asbestos contaminated soil in Whiting Avenue, 1978
-papers relating to Barking Community Health Council
-correspondence (chiefly with Margaret Sharkey) and telephone memoranda
-press clippings

Set of standard letters with which SPAID / OEDA responded to enquiries.

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.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with business historian Geoffrey Tweedale. One theme of the exchange is arrangements for the OEDA archive. Includes

• drafts of Tweedale’s publications
• correspondence with London Metropolitan Archive
• photocopies of corporate correspondence from the asbestos industry, including Sumner Simpson, 1934-1957

Correspondence and papers re Shaw’s parachute jump 2006, to raise funds for OEDA.

Personal injury lawyer Andrew Shaw of Higgs & Son Solicitors served on the OEDA Management Committee 2005-2007.

Excerpts from 'Hansard' and typescript Parliamentary Questions, usually annotated and/or marked.

Originally in multiple duplicates.

Copies of judgements, legal opinions, advice on liability, occasionally dependancy schedules, affidavits, particulars of claim (including clinical information), skeleton arguments in preparation of a case, witness statements, transcripts of proceedings and press coverage. In alphabetical order.

• front matter includes list of settlements (asbestos related, asthma, Berylium related) as well as summaries of selected judgements 1961-1984
• occasional notes suggest that SPAID/OEDA supplied copies of judgements for a fee

Copies of Field Fisher Waterhouse's 'Asbestos news', 1999-2007 (incomplete set).

Copies of Irwin Mitchell’s ‘IMpulse: the personal injury review’ 1996-2007, incomplete set. Some copies marked.

Annotated copies of the Rowley Ashworth Solicitors’ 'Bulletin RA', 2000-2007.

Incomplete set.

Case register arranged alphabetically by surname with columns for name/address/disease. In address field, date of SPAID-contact. No case numbers.

Further includes a ‘Special interest’ section containing:

• list of British ships (25 October 1994), alphabetized by last name
• (partial) list (case-numbered) of ?mesothelioma? cases, with information on settlement, press coverage; some aggregated by ‘short exposures’, ‘special interest’
• press items, list of MRSA sufferers, list lung cancer cases, bronchiectasis, cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis etc.

Further includes

• list of overseas cases 1988-2007, in chronological order
• medical reports by Dr R M Rudd, 2000

Mrs J Bryant was a long-serving member of staff.

Pleural plaque cases from 2004, in alphabetical order (by name of patient).

Includes list of OEDA clients marked 'Pleural plaques notes sent 2005, 2006, 2007' (at front of file). The remainder is mainly information requests from individuals affected by pleural plaques (including from Germany), press coverage naming pleural plaques sufferers, solicitors' correspondence.

At the time a pleural plaque compensation claim (in England and Wales) had to be brought within 3 years from the date of diagnosis (OEDA pleural plaques note, 8 March 2006).

Correspondence and papers re compensation / industrial disablement benefits claims for pleural plaques.

Papers include press coverage, scientific papers, case information, also copy of judgement Grieves v. F T Everard & Sons (2005). Includes feedback on Nancy Tait's latest pleural placques note, given to solicitors at John Pickering & Partners, 2005.

Correspondence, in reverse chronological order, covering a wide range of topics including

• constituents' industrial injuries and their problems in claiming compensation
• the OEDA newsletter
• upcoming conferences
• the campaign to ban asbestos
• the state of death reporting
• statistics on industrial injuries benefits and asbestos-related disease
• pneumoconiosis medical panels ignoring recent research and not doing their job properly
• European regulations on the prevention of environmental pollution by asbestos

Correspondence re the Tyneside Hazards Group / the 'Tyneside occupational health pilot project'. Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) is chiefly with William (Bill) Lawrence and includes press coverage, conference information, and some case information.