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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.

Correspondence (with the SPAID trustees) and papers, among them IYPD News, press releases, promotional material, information leaflets and posters.

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.

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

OEDA files on English journalist Christopher John Penrice Booker (b.1937), one of the founders of the magazine 'Private Eye', and a columnist for 'The Sunday Telegraph' since 1990.

Correspondence, chiefly from individuals who were exposed to solvents.

Handbook for students from the International College of Tourism and Management (ITM), Austria (first edition). Students taking a two-year course at ITM could obtain a BA degree by completing one or two years of further study at one of its partner universities, including the University of Strathclyde.

The programme includes a list of those qualifying for the Diploma of the Scottish Hotel School, annotated in red ink to indicate that several of the students had won prizes. It also includes a separate list of scholarships and prizes awarded within the Scottish Hotel School, annotated with the names of two additional students who had won Practical Hotel Training prizes.

• Scrap book of memories of the Scottish Hotel School (formerly the Scottish School of Hotel Management) from 1944 until around 1996. Includes a potted history of the establishment and development of the School; photographs of staff and students; photocopies of newspaper articles and function menus, and copies of the Scottish Hotel School Graduates' Association Newsletter.
• Pictorial record of the Scottish Hotel School (1944-1997), compiled in February 2002. Includes a short history of the Scottish Hotel School; photographs of students and staff; copies of prospectuses, programmes, newspaper and magazine articles and menus; second year examination paper for 'Hotel Accounting and Control I', 7 May 1951.
• Papers and press cuttings relating to the Scottish Hotel School, compiled in February 2002

Album containing 88 menus for functions catered by students and staff of the Scottish Hotel School.

Records the date of each visit and the title, surname and business address of each visitor. Entries date from 28 September 1949 to 27 September 1962. Two thirds of the pages are unused.

• Bound volume containing issues for 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964
• Bound volume containing issues for 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972
• Loose issues for the following years: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 (Jubilee Edition), 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994-1995, 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2006-2007.

A successor to previous student publications, the Ross Hall Times and the Spatule, the Scottish Hotel School Students' Journal was established in 1961 and renamed the Strathclyde Hotelier in 1965. It was produced by the students as a year book of the Scottish Hotel School, but was also used by them as a means of contacting former students and of helping to get themselves recognised within the hotel and tourism industry.