Annotated by Dalton.
Correspondence and papers on asbestos contamination in Armley, Leeds. The contamination was caused by fall-out from J.W. Roberts Ltd asbestos processing factory in Armley.
Article defending reputation of Irving Selikoff, Director of Environmental Sciences Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital. Annotated [by Dalton].
Concerns Southwark Council’s handling of removal of asbestos from houses on the estate.
Includes:
Papers on testimony in 1907 of Dr. Montague Murray, senior physician at Charing Cross Hospital, to Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.
Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.
Report by Tony Bingham, elastomers chemist, on Scandura [an asbestos product].
Correspondence and papers on polluting asbestos factory in Ireland. Also includes correspondence and papers on Raybestos-Manhattan (Ireland) factory at Ovens, County Cork, Ireland.
Correspondence and papers relating to collapse of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd. Concerns scheme of arrangement to pay asbestos compensation claims. Correspondents include: Nancy Tait, Tommy Gorman, Owen Tudor.