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Correspondence and papers re the lease of office space at 6 Station Road, Cuffley, and the eventual relocation of the Cuffley office to Mitre House, Enfield.

Includes an estimate for removal of asbestos from Cuffley office, 1984. Also includes the original document: Underlease of the first floor offices, Cuffley, 1983.

Papers and correspondence. Correspondence is with Sylvia Collier, BBC South. Papers document SPAID's pioneering role in warning of the mesothelioma epidemic ahead, long before the Health & Safety Executive's joint press announcement (with Julian Peto) on 3 March 1995 that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production.

Covering correspondence re thesis project of Caroline C Bamu, biological science student at Queen Mary & Westfield College, London. Bamu completed a (?bachelor) thesis on epidemiology of mesothelioma in England and Wales, under the supervision of Professor R C Tinsley.

Includes a copy of the thesis

GB 249 OM/467/1 · File · 1961-1966
Part of Dougal White papers

Royal College of Science and Technology booklet detailing courses of study, qualifications for admission and fees for session 1961-1962; letters to Dougal White concerning his admission to the Royal College of Science and Technology and the University of Strathclyde; receipts for the submission of White's undergraduate and postgraduate theses; letter intimating the award of the Henry Bell Scholarship; letters intimating the recommendation of the awards of BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Mechanical Engineering; information leaflets on enrolment and academic dress for graduation; 1 black and white photograph of the University of Strathclyde degree congregation of 30 October 1965 at 11.00 am (copyright: George Outram & Co. Ltd), with admission ticket for the ceremony.

GB 249 SOHC 7/1 · File · 13 August 2004
Part of Chemical workers oral history project

Conversation between David Walker and Mr Richard Fitzpatrick, Rutherglen, 13 August 2004.

  • sound recording (44m) and transcript

Richard Fitzpatrick, b. 24 February 1917, process worker (chromates) Rutherglen, near Glasgow. Mr Fitzpatrick was a former employee at White's Chemical Works, Shawfield, Rutherglen.

'Lung cancer documents'
GB 249 OEDA CM/4/1 · File · 1923-1986
Part of OEDA Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers

Includes:

  • company correspondence re lung cancer, 1923-1946, including statistics on occupational lung cancer mortality, lists of 'suspended employees' (= suspended on health grounds) and of employees whose cause of death (as stated by coroner or medical board) involved some degree of asbestosis; also correspondence re Dr Leroy U Gardner's asbestosis research at the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, New York
  • correspondence and papers re medical research conducted by Drs T Belt and E J King on behalf of T&N, 1942-1952
  • records relating to Drs R Doll and J Knox' study on mortality from lung cancer among asbestos workers, and T&N seeking to suppress the findings, 1953-1954
  • records chiefly re epidemiological studies on lung cancer among asbestos workers, 1954-1959
  • correspondence and papers re asbestos and health, 1959-1986, including lists of claims settled or still proceeding, list of deaths from lung cancer and mesothelioma, etc
GB 249 OEDA CM/6/4/1 · File · 1978-1985
Part of OEDA Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers

Correspondence and papers re asbestos workers at the Havelock/Bulembu asbestos mine, Swaziland. The bulk of the file relates to an epidemiological study of workers at the mine, undertaken jointly by the Medical Research Council Pneumoconiosis Unit at Llandough Hospital, Penarth (Wales), T&N Ltd, Manchester, and the Havelock Mine, Swaziland.

Includes reports of visits to the mine, preliminary reports of the epidemiological study of chrysotile workers. The study was triggered by a report of Peter Elmes, at the time director of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit, Penarth, following a visit in 1978.