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Papers relating to Joe Walker, asbestos lagger and safety representative of General and Municipal Workers Union Heat & Frost Branch. Walker was sacked for calling in a factory inspector.

Letter from Dalton to Department of Environmental Health, Westminster City Council, on case of asbestos exposure in Millbank Tower. Includes Dalton’s notes about the case.

Claim for damages by widow of man who died from mesothelioma.

Correspondence and papers on trial relating to death in 1995 from mesothelioma of David Emerson, consultant surgeon in Sheffield. It was alleged that Emerson was exposed to asbestos as a student and houseman in the Middlesex Hospital in London in the 1960s and 1970s.

Papers on compensation claim by John McPherson. McPherson suffered cancer of the larynx after exposure to asbestos.

Correspondence on Alan Powell, who died from mesothelioma.

This file originated from Dalton's role as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department.

Correspondence and papers on June Hancock, mesothelioma sufferer and campaigner against asbestos. As a child, June played near the J.W. Roberts & Co Ltd asbestos factory in Armley, Leeds. In a landmark legal case, she won compensation from Turner & Newall.

Includes leaflet and newsletter about June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.

Papers relating to claim for disablement benefit by George Wilshaw, who developed mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos.

Correspondence on David Morgan, who died of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos at Prince of Wales Baths.

Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.

Letter from Dalton to the secretary of the Enquiry into the Health and Safety Executive Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee about bricklayers sacked for complaining about asbestos hazards.

Includes:

• scientific papers
• press cuttings
• health and safety publications
• COSLA Asbestos Working Group on Asbestos report, June 2002
• correspondence and papers on death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School
• Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Asbestos Joint Working Party reports

Includes:

• transcript of coroner’s inquest into death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School, 1994
• certificates of air monitoring tests at Plumstead Manor School, 1993
• notes by Dalton of meetings of parents of children at Plumstead Manor School
• press cuttings
• transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ broadcast in 1994
• specification for asbestos removal from Dog Kennel Hill School
• programme and papers from ‘Asbestos and public health’ conference in York, 1984 (includes paper by Dalton)
• report by The Asbestos Institute entitled ‘Ban asbestos zealotry – a gross deception but at what cost to society?’, 1994