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Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings).

Chiefly

• 'Visitors from America and information they were interested in': correspondence, chiefly with Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina, and papers relating mainly to Dr R Doll, among them copy of a letter from Doll and a photocopy of the HSC-commissioned report by Doll with J Peto, ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos’ (1985)
• 'Information from American visitors': photocopies of court papers from actions against Turner & Newall Ltd, left by Terry Richardson

Correspondence and papers re various editions of the information pack 'Problems arising from the use of asbestos in buildings: papers assembled by SPAID'.

Includes copies of various SPAID notes from the pack, as well as SPAID note 22A ('Asbestos in buildings: effects on health and exposure'), reproducing the Health & Safety Commission publication on the topic by Richard Doll and Julian Peto, 1985. Further, former note 49 ('Industry information: the mineral asbestos'), from 'Asbestos - its special attributes and uses' of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), 1975.

VHS recording of BBC South programme 'First sight: a handful of dust' on asbestos in schools.

'Asbestos newsletter' reported: "This thirty minute documentary examined the on-going problem of asbestos in London schools, apartment and civic buildings. It highlighted the pioneering work of Mrs Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID (the Society for Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases), who has been warning since 1982 of the mesothelioma epidemic only recently identified by British epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto. The program was followed by a one hour discussion and phone-in on local radio in which Mrs. Tait, Professor Peto and Nigel Bryson of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union answered callers' queries and debated the issues raised. The radio 4 BBC series: Face the Facts broadcast a special forty minute program on March 4 which looked at the history of asbestos in the UK."

Notes on a selection of literature on lung cancer, c.1992. Also includes copies of case correspondence and copy of R Doll and J Peto (1985) 'Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos', with Nancy Tait's instruction to SPAID colleague Martin [Stower]: 'Please list the parts you consider most important or most easily challenged'.

Correspondence and papers re HSE asbestos awareness campaign and HSE joint press announcement (with Dr Julian Peto), 3 March 1995, announcing that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production. Includes:

• press coverage and correspondence arising
• Nancy Tait’s own press statement on the matter, timed to pre-date the HSE announcement; also draft of her article on SPAID and its achievements, written at the request of the British Lung Foundation (BLF)
• Tait’s compilations documenting Dr Peto’s involvement with the asbestos industry; that SPAID had furnished him with the relevant information as early as 1982-1983; and documenting Dr Peto's significantly lower estimates of the risks of asbestos exposure at the time
• further papers 1967-1994 with bearings on the matter

Julian Peto's latest analyses and projections of mesothelioma mortality appeared in 'Lancet' on 4 March 1995 (Peto et al., 'Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain'). They significantly revised his findings, with R Doll, of 1985.

Correspondence with the HSE Epidemiology & Medical Statistic Unit over a prospective case-control study of mesothelioma, for which Dr Julian Peto had been commissioned by HSE. Includes copy of research proposal 'A population based case-control study of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to occupation among British men and women under the age of 60'. Also photocopies of Nancy Tait's correspondence with Dr W Smither re dust measurements, 1976.

Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.

Numbers 1 to 12 (no. 10 missing) of the community newspaper 'Staveley Now'.

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

Press coverage, January to December 2005. In reverse chronological order. Some of the original cuttings mounted.

Predominantly on asbestos (including re IIAC report reviewing the prescription of asbestos-related diseases, Cm 6553), but also covers other themes, notably the health threats posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Includes press cuttings on Nancy Tait receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), and her welcoming Cm 6553. Also obituaries of Sir Richard Doll.

The IIAC report (Cm 6553), which was presented to Parliament in February 2005 and published in July 2005, 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.

Correspondence and papers re successive studies of mortality among former workers at J W Roberts Armley factory. One survey looked specifically at women and was undertaken by Dr Leo Kinlan, statistican to Dr Richard Doll, Oxford, during the 1970s. The second project was undertaken by Leeds City Council and looked more broadly at mesothelioma deaths in Leeds.

Correspondence between Dalton and Barry Castleman, environmental consultant, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include Turner & Newall (including copies of Turner & Newall correspondence, 1938-1964), Richard Doll, Irving Selikoff, World Trade Organization asbestos case.

Includes letter to Dalton from John Hare, of Leigh, Day & Co, solicitors, re Dalton’s letter to the New Scientist.

Background research on companies and their insurers, in alphabetical order chiefly by name of employer or their insurer. Occasionally also by first letter of subject of inquiry (e.g. 'Power stations', 'hair driers', 'printing works'). Includes:

• solicitor’s correspondence, client correspondence, press reports, notes, copies of ‘British asbestos newsletter’ with annotations re cases
• final report by F D Pooley [n.d.] 'Observations on the exposure of gas mark workers at the Boots plant'
• copy of judgement in James Kelly (administrator of the estate of Patrick John Kelly, deceased) v. Smith & Partners Ltd, High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, 2000
• judgement in Rachel Lubbe et al. v. Cape plc, Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal (Division), 1999
• annotated photocopy of '67th annual report of National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers for [...] 1964'
• advice by Timothy Grice in Brian Jerrard v. Ministry of Defence, 1996
• note on matter of Mr Edward James Patrick Russell v. Post Office, 1992
• copy of opinion of Lord Cameron of Lochbroom in cause Margery Patricia Cook or Rennie v. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd et al., 1993

• mainly witness statements, arranged alphabetically by name of employer, occasionally also by surname of client or type of business (“dockyard”)
• occasionally particulars of claim

Named employers / insurers include: British Cellophane Ltd, British Insulated Calender Cables (BICC), British Telecommunications plc, Cape plc, Central Insulated Ltd, Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), Ellistown Colliery, Ford Motor Company, R B Hilton Ltd, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), North Thames Gas, C A Parsons, Powergen Ltd, Rank Xerox, Redpath Brown, RTZ Estates Ltd, E A & H Sandford (Insulations) Ltd, etc.

Front matter includes guidelines for witness statements (‘Information which solicitors will require from colleagues’).