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Table of cases 1333-3000 (19 May 1992-8 August 1997), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

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.

A4 size address book of cases (name / address / disease).

Marked up using the following colour code:

• red: SPAID/OEDA asbestos-related case register
• green: claim no longer proceeding
• brown: pre-employment medical taken little notice of
• blue + pink: claim started + settled – length of time taken

Case register arranged alphabetically by surname with columns for name/address/disease. In address field, date of SPAID-contact. No case numbers.

Further includes a ‘Special interest’ section containing:

• list of British ships (25 October 1994), alphabetized by last name
• (partial) list (case-numbered) of ?mesothelioma? cases, with information on settlement, press coverage; some aggregated by ‘short exposures’, ‘special interest’
• press items, list of MRSA sufferers, list lung cancer cases, bronchiectasis, cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis etc.

Further includes

• list of overseas cases 1988-2007, in chronological order
• medical reports by Dr R M Rudd, 2000

Mrs J Bryant was a long-serving member of staff.

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 case summary sheets, some of them print-outs of electronic case sheets, others manually populated photocopies of database entry mask. In reverse numerical order, counting backwards from 3730 to 43.

There are occasional gaps throughout and considerable gaps c.2200-43. Annotations suggest that some cases may have been excluded on the grounds that the database was reserved for cases of asbestos-related diseases.

Includes:

• covering note inscribed 'Meena's computer sheets'. The reference is to SPAID staff Mrs Meena Patel
• overview of cases by region, 31 December 1995
• address sheets 'new cases, April '01-March '02'

Set of manually filled out forms summarising case information, presumably generated for database entry. In alphabetical order.

Fields include:

• 'computer programmes' (used to record date of data entry)
• region
• name
• case number
• alive / deceased
• DOB, DOD
• Ref[erred] to SPAID by
• sportsman yes/no
• smoker from/to, ex smoker from/to, never smoked
• cigarettes: commercial, rolled, cigars, pipe
• diagnosis, consultant, date
• relevant employment, employers
• exposure to blue/brown/white/other
• date of first exposure
• date of last exposure
• solicitor
  ...

Card index of employers, matching each employer with individual(s) diagnosed with asbestosis or related condition.

Instructions on how to use the computer in the OEDA office and the databases used by the organisation, in particular 'Spaidbas', a database mapping company information (employers) to their insurers. Includes

• results of several queries dated October 1995
• also instruction for using the fundraising table in a database referred to as 'OEDABASE'

The computer in question was donated by Rowley Ashworth Solicitors.

Correspondence with Rodney Nelson-Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse, Solicitors, re their asbestos companies/insurers database Coda, its transfer to OEDA, updates to the database, etc. Includes

• copy of ‘Asbestos database specifications’
• 188pp print-out of ‘List of companies linked by change of name’

Company queries and replies, including invoices for searches conducted.