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Extracts from Employer's Annual Return 1983-1995, documenting SPAID staff in that period.

• annotated typescript (possibly by SPAID / OEDA electron microscope technician Lawrie Hawkins) 'Investigation of lung tissue by electron microscopy for asbestos fibres, marked 'LH' and 'pre-2000'
• handwritten notes by Nancy Tait on 'Preparation of lung samples'; also instruction for Mr L Hawkins and Mrs Joan Lemmon, who started as SPAID electron microscopist in the spring of 1990, taking over from J B Kirkham
• typescript 'Calculation of EM factor'
• some literature on microscopy and fibre counting, including typescript of Cherrie et al. (1987) 'Comparison of optical and electron microscopy for evaluating airborne asbestos' and of summary of A M Johnston (1985) 'A review of present-day automated fibre counting instruments and some future proposals'

Further includes SPAID leaflet c. 1985 outlining theory (and "the facts") of risk assessment, reproducing Richard Doll's arguments on the asbestos percentage in brake drum dust, 1985, and SPAID's comments on Doll's position; followed by two recent mesothelioma cases.

Correspondence and papers re benefits leaflets and forms, the majority issued by DHSS / DSS / DWP.

The Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) separated during 1988 to form two departments, one of which was the Department of Social Security (DSS). In 2001, the DSS was largely replaced by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), with the other responsibilities of the department assumed by the Treasury and the Ministry for Defence.

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

Originally in multiple duplicates.

Photocopy of transcript (incomplete) of direct & cross examination Dr Kevin Browne (13 May 1987), in Sisters of St Mary et al. vs AAER Sprayed Insulation et al., State of Wisconsin, Circuit Court, Dane County.

Complete up to and including p. 117.

Includes

• Nancy Tait's notes on the deposition
• correspondence between Nancy Tait and Michael O'Connor, legal Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1994
• much annotated copy of transcripts of the depositions on 4, 5 and 6 October 1994

• printout of digital inventory of medical reports, A[...]-D[...], 2005, capturing case number, surname, date of medical report, author of report, diagnosis (pleural plaques, D1, D3, D8, D9)
• typescript inventory of medical reports A[...]-L[...], c.1991, capturing full name, doctor's name, date of report, summary of opinion, smoker, comments
• copy of medical glossary notes (Blesovky's syndrome, Denver shunt, fibrosis), extract from a report by Dr Robin Rudd on the risk following pleural plaques
• correspondence and papers on access to medical records and data protection
• specimen medical reports

Recording of White Lung Association ‘We have a right to breath’.

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.

Copies of the magazine ‘The Asbestos Institute: sensible management of a natural resource’, August 1991-1998, incomplete set.

Photographs and images of the discovery and removal of asbestos and images of a Reserve Power Station in Melbourne.
Photographs as follows:
-1 black and white photograph of 4 men in hazard suits on a rocky outcrop by the sea, handling what is likely to be asbestos deposits, c1980s
-8 colour photographs of the asbestos removal in the charity's Cuffley Office, mounted on A4 paper, c1970s
-1 photocopy of a photograph of a warning sign for asbestos found in ceiling tiles, with a transcription of the sign
-image of ceiling containing asbestos with the asbestos labelled and the legend 'Parts of Ceiling', on acetate and a paper copy
-12 colour photographs mounted on two sheets of A4 paper, labelled 'Edwards Ipswich, Damages Asbestos Insulation' and one photograph labelled 'Reynolds 1975' on the reverse of the second A4 sheet of paper
-4 black and white prints of 'figures', with captions, illustrating the removal of asbestos and the dust it creates
-11 colour photographs of different views, mainly interior views, of what looks like a group visit to a power station. Found within an envelope labelled: 'Reserve Power Station, Melbourne'
-1 colour postcard showing a lump of asbestos held in a hand. Postcard is captioned on the reverse: 'Crude Asbestos. Thetford Mines, Qubec, Canada, World's Largest Asbestos Center'

Card index of SPAID/OEDA cases, in alphabetical order (by surname of individual afflicted and family member). In some cases cross-referenced to case number or 'Q' file (OEDA/C/1/2); see link below.

Printout of the OEDA case database in the form of a table, 28 July 2003. 171 pp, listing cases 2-3650 (with gaps) and cases 4001-10,000 (with extensive gaps), followed by a few rows with anomalous case numbers. This and other indicators suggest that there may have been a technical problem with the database.

The printout appears to have been generated to support OEDA's case for continued funding from Association of London Government (ALG; formerly the London Boroughs Grant Unit, LBGU), the organisation's main source of funding since 1983.

Includes:

• note from Nancy Tait proposing to use this printout, rather than the electronic database, to record important updates henceforth
• overview of codes and what each column in the database is intended for

Set of photocopies of papers from 47 medical appeal tribunal (MAT) cases in which SPAID represented the claimant. Includes claimant details, medical notes, outcomes, etc. In alphabetical order by surname of client.

Further includes

• photocopy of draft judgement in Kitchen et al. v. Secretary of State for Social Services [c. 30 July 1993]