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List of solicitors
GB 249 OEDA/C/4/2/1 · Dossier · 1990-c.2002
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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
GB 249 OEDA/D/1/1 · Dossier · 1969-1991
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence with representatives of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC) and its critics; among the former, AIC director W Penney and AIC deputy chairman Wilfred P Howard.

Topics covered include Nancy Tait's unanswered questions regarding the death of her husband, William Ashton Tait; the facts of asbestos; Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills' (1976); and various AIC publications.

Further includes

  • AIC leaflets and technical information notes, among them ‘Asbestos in the home’ (1983) and ‘Asbestos in building’ (1983)
  • AIC's commentary on 'Asbestos killer dust' by Alan Dalton / the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science, 1979
  • AIC's commentary on Nancy Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'
  • documentation re the asbestos industry's intense advertising campaign in June-July 1976
  • Tait's detailed criticism of the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) educational leaflets 'Safe working with asbestos'
  • a little correspondence with the ARC, 1969-1977

Also includes a little material re the Asbestos International Association (AIA), whose director general at the time, Alex Cross (A A Cross), requested access to the comments of the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) on Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'.

The AIC was set up by the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) in 1967 to manage asbestos publicity (and lobbying). Sometime in the late 1970s the AIC changed its name to Asbestos Information Centre. Nancy Tait and other critics of the AIC found many of the AIC's statements inaccurate.

The set of aggregations originally contained a photocopy of the AIC's typescript ‘ACA final report - 24 October 1979: Industry Information Kit’. This duplicated material elsewhere in the collection; see link below, 'Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos'.

Langbaurgh proof of evidence Nancy Tait
GB 249 OEDA/D/2/3/1 · Dossier · 1947-1981
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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
GB 249 OEDA/D/3/7/1 · Dossier · 1978-1987
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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
'Fibre identification and counting'
GB 249 OEDA/D/4/6/1 · Dossier · 1970-2001
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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 with Members of Parliament, in alphabetical order by surname. With a listing of MPs (dated 2002) at the front of the file.

Covers a wide range of topics including

  • Parliamentary Questions (PQs) relating to occupational and environmental health & safety, DHSS/DSS policies, DHSS/DSS procedures, DHSS/DSS leaflets and DHSS/DSS shortcomings
  • Dr Kevin Browne's dual role as Cape Asbestos consultant and medical officer at DHSS medical boarding center for respiratory diseases
  • constituents who happen to be also be SPAID/OEDA clients
SPAID Fellowship
GB 249 OEDA/F/1 · Série organique · 1981-1994, ?2005
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

According to an early invitation, SPAID Fellowship started out as an initiative aiming to ensure that the industrially disabled were not forgotten in the International Year of Disabled People (1981).

The SPAID Fellowship was understood as the 'Supporters Club' for the organisation. People disabled by industry would meet those interested to help them and to prevent further disease. SPAID Fellowship developed around St Barnabas Church, Bethnal Green, London. Following a get-together at the home of Joan Piccolo of Rainham, Essex, in February 1981, and an inaugural occasion at St Barnabas in June, meetings were expected to take place every first Saturday of the month from 2-4 pm.

Later on SPAID Fellowship developed also at Merseyside.

Joan Piccolo, whose husband had died of an asbestos-related disease, campaigned as part of the Women Against the Dust group; see 'Morning Star', 1 April 1976.

OEDA Northamptonshire Support Group
GB 249 OEDA/F/2/9/1 · Dossier · 1996-2006
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence with Kerry Dukes, including correspondence re the OEDA Northamptonshire Support Group, 1996-c.2000, and re Ms Dukes subsequent activities.

Includes table of Northants cases with contact information, OEDA case number etc.

Kerry Dukes is the daughter of Wayne Dukes, who died of an asbestos-related disease in October 1996. She set up the OEDA Northants support group in 1996 and joined the OEDA Management Committee in 1999.

Unions A-Z, 1973-2000
GB 249 OEDA/F/3/1 · Dossier · 1973-2000
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence with various unions (in roughly alphabetical order by name of union). Includes publicity leaflets, press cuttings, copies of

  • International Metalworkers’ Federation (1979) ‘Action programme against asbestos’ (at AUEW)
  • Peter Kirby (c.1982) ‘Death in the textile industry: a proportional mortality study of 952 dyers, bleachers and textile workers who died between 1976-1980’ (at TGWU)
Brakes
GB 249 OEDA/G/1 · Dossier · 1973-1998
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
  • photocopy of M G Jacko and R T DuCharme (March 1973 / 1978) ‘Brake emissions: emission measurements from brake and clutch linings from selected mobile sources’ (Bendix Research Laboratory for EPA, Rept. 68-04-0020)
  • press coverage, press releases, excerpts from literature and Mintex product information, 1978-1998
  • copy of Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited (1989) 'Guide to regulations on control of asbestos at work' (booklet)

As early as 1977 Nancy Tait and her charity had given evidence to the Simpson Committee about the risks of chrysotile in brake linings, drawing attention to the high level of risk to garage workers. It was not until 1985 that the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) took action.

GB 249 OEDA/G/4/1 · Dossier · 1998, 2001-2003
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence (chiefly with lawyers) and papers (including news coverage and OEDA updates) re the appeals against the High Court judgement in Fairchild v. Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd, 1 February 2001.

Includes

  • student paper (anonymised) ‘Is Fairchild fair?’, 2003
  • opinions of the Lords of Appeal, May 2002
  • transcripts of proceedings in the House of Lords 7-9 May 2002
  • copy of joint medical report on Arthur Eric Fairchild (d.1996) by Dr R M Rudd and Dr J Moore-Gillon, January 2001, and Nancy Tait's observations on it, February 2002
  • responses to Nancy Tait's compensation survey among OEDA clients for 2001
  • copy of judgement in appeal of Fairchild (et al.), Supreme Court of Judicature, 11 December 2001