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Pleural plaque cases from 2004, in alphabetical order (by name of patient).

Includes list of OEDA clients marked 'Pleural plaques notes sent 2005, 2006, 2007' (at front of file). The remainder is mainly information requests from individuals affected by pleural plaques (including from Germany), press coverage naming pleural plaques sufferers, solicitors' correspondence.

At the time a pleural plaque compensation claim (in England and Wales) had to be brought within 3 years from the date of diagnosis (OEDA pleural plaques note, 8 March 2006).

• copy of 'SPAID news', issue 2, c.1980. With an annotated table on how a claimant's address may play a part in deciding whether s/he receives benefits or not
• copy of 'SPAID news', January 1990
• copy of the final issue of 'SPAID news', March 1996, announcing that the organisation had changed its name and expanded its mission beyond industrial disease, to benefit anyone affected e.g. by asthma, Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), solvents or pesticides, and so forth

Poster reporting on six of the 42 new cases handled by SPAID since October 1983:

• 48 year old maintenance fitter diagnosed with mesothelioma, after only three years occasional contact with asbestos in naval dockyards
• 69 year old mesothelioma patient who worked for Turner & Newall, Manchester, for one year, 30 years ago
• 48 year old mesothelioma patient who came in contact with asbestos during an apprenticeship with ICI, likewise 30 years ago
• 42 year old former merchant seaman and cargo inspector at Plymouth docks, on severe pain medication for his mesothelioma
• 45 year old electrical engineer diagnosed with mesothelioma

• legend explaining two photographs (marked D11 at the back)
• two photographs, mounted (marked B 36 at the back): (A) thin section of lung tissue as seen in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), (B) asbestos fibres inside the nucleus of an interstitial cell

Display boards visualising the rise of mesothelioma deaths 1968-1979 and 1968-1982, including the proportion awarded industrial death benefit.

Missing both SPAID and OEDA label.

List of personal injury lawyers, in alphabetical order by name of law firm, several versions.

Further includes

• list of solicitors with experience in compensation for infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• list of barristers
• some press coverage, guidance re payments to witnesses
• conference announcements on expert witnessing and civil experts

Nancy Tait's proof of evidence, including extensive appendix. Also Tait's handwritten notes on the meeting.

Further includes

• papers marked 'Papers referred to not appended', among them parts of Alex Cross, '[Presentation at] Asbestos Information Association third annual industry-government conference, 8-9 September 1976'
• copy of SPAID's extensive critical commentary on the final report of the Health & Safety Commission (HSC) Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Report, 1979)
• HSC/HSE correspondence and papers 1975-1977

Correspondence and papers re project 'Identification of deaths from malignant mesothelioma', 1984-1987. Correspondence is mainly re access to mesothelioma death certificates and the statistical analysis of mesothelioma as cause of death. Includes

• SPAID analysis of 673 mesothelioma death certificates April 1986 to March 1987, including breakdown by age at death, mesothelioma deaths not investigated by a coroner; also list of certificates not showing mesothelioma as cause of death (but nevertheless included in the batch of certificates sent to SPAID for analysis)
• correspondence between Nancy Tait, Dr R M Rudd, the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), and HSE, 1984-1987
• photocopy of typescript 'Mesothelioma register: proposals for future data collection', marked 'file HSE' and '1 Jan[uary] 1987'
• Dr R M Rudd's outline of project 'Identification of deaths from malignant mesothelioma'
• annotated copy of joint report by Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Pathologists on ‘Medical aspects of death certification’, October 1982
• letter to the Daily Telegraph, December 1978, on medical confidentiality

Literature review 'Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, fibre analysis and chrysotile', created 1996 or after. Also letter to a coroner, 2001.

Compilations of literature on fibre identification and counting, in alphabetical order (by title of publication). Includes copy of a Parliamentary Question (PQ), February 1999, on the extent to which electron microscopy is employed in the UK for the purpose of assessing the presence of asbestos fibres in lung tissue in order to advise special medical boards on respiratory diseases and coroners.

Correspondence in reverse chronological order, in response to a mail shot from SPAID sent out in early April 1988.