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• correspondence with Mick Firth and Paula Walker of Sheffield & Rotherham Asbestos Group (SARAG) and copies of SARAG newsletter 1-11 (2003-2006)
• correspondence and papers relating to other projects and activities in the area, notably the Rotherham Occupational Health Project and the Sheffield Occupational Health project, etc.

Mainly papers, also some correspondence with George Mason of the Walsall Workers Education Association branch. Includes copies of the bulletin / newsletter, 2000, 2005-2007.

Correspondence with and re CancerBACUP 1985-2007, in reverse chronological order. Includes

• correspondence with cancer victims and their families
• updates on how OEDA is described in the CancerBACUP directory

For OEDA's holdings of CancerBACUP publications, consult the OEDA collection of printed material; see link below.

Correspondence chiefly re British Lung Foundation's (BLF) Action Mesothelioma Day, 2006 and 2007. Includes invitation to the parliamentary reception. Also copy of the government petition 'Action mesothelioma charter', 2006.

• registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
• information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
• some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
• standard forms authorising Nancy Tait to access her clients' medical records

From the mid-1970s, Nancy Tait maintained very active contacts with a number of trade unions, discussing health & safety matters, news and developments. The resulting body of correspondence mostly accumulated by name of union.

From the late 1970s, Nancy Tait maintained very active contacts with an ever expanding number of victims support groups and advice centres in Britain and beyond, discussing medical, legal, health & safety and funding developments. The resulting correspondence accumulated by name of the body in question. This section focuses on the British Isles. For contacts with international action groups and victims support groups, consult 'White Lung Association' (see link below) and other international aggregations. Note that Nancy Tait's earliest contacts with grassroot action centred on Scotland and in particular Glasgow, notably the Cancer Prevention Society (and Ted Rushworth) and the Glasgow branch of the the TGW (and John Todd).

Mainly correspondence with John Pickering & Partners solicitors Ruth Davies, Neil Fisher, Carolann Hepworth, Kevin Johnson and James Thompson. In reverse chronological order. Includes case information.

Includes copies of

• Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) consultation paper 'The law of damages' (2007)
• John Pickering & Partners 'Response ... to an invitation from the Department for Work and Pensions to submit proposals for mesothelioma compensation claims' (November 2006)

Two series:

• analogue registers and finding aids
• OEDA case database and data sheets

Predominantly incoming correspondence and papers from international anti-asbestos campaigner Laurie Kazan-Allen.

Correspondence and papers re compensation of British Coal workers for respiratory diseases, vibration white finger (VWF), hearing loss, etc. Includes

• correspondence with prospective claimants' solicitors, occasionally also with MPs and with union representatives, 1988-2004
• press coverage to 2007
• details of National Coal Board (Co. Durham) employees, copy of opinion in Doris Livsey v. British Coal Corporation (1995), statement by a mesothelioma sufferer who had worked at Moston Colliery for the National Coal Board as a boilerhouse stoker (1989)

Further includes

• copy of statement by three commissioners (21 October 2002) 'Decisions of the Tribunal of Social Security Commissioners' discussing issues the four appeals in question raise in respect of PDD1 (pneumoconiosis) for coal workers
• copy of IIAC (Industrial Injuries Advisory Council) position paper 11 ‘Lung function assessment: industrial injuries disablement benefit prescribed disease D12 (chronic bronchitis and emphysema in underground coalminers)’ (n.d., c. 2000)
• judgment of Mr Justice Turner on The British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation (summary, 23 January 1998)
• copy of Sallie Booth, Irwin Mitchell solicitors (1997) 'Chest disease - legal view'
• copy of 'Social Security Act 1975: bronchitis and emphysema' (1988)
• DTI press notices and news releases 1998-2002

Overseas correspondence, primarily re asbestos-related diseases. In reverse chronological order.

Standard replies (also covering letters) including notes and information packs sent in response to occupational and environmental health enquiries. All the texts in questions mutated over the years. Several of the notes evolved into publications by the organisation; see link below.

Table of cases 3001-3735 (11 August 1997-13 March 2007), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted OEDA, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, comments.

This schedule marks a departure from previous practice, in that columns that remained empty in past registers have been removed. Also, the third column now bears the new name of the organisation.