'Asbestos newsletter' reported on this programme: "This thirty minute documentary examined the on-going problem of asbestos in London schools, apartment and civic buildings. It highlighted the pioneering work of Mrs Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID (the Society for Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases), who has been warning since 1982 of the mesothelioma epidemic only recently identified by British epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto. The program was followed by a one hour discussion and phone-in on local radio in which Mrs. Tait, Professor Peto and Nigel Bryson of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union answered callers' queries and debated the issues raised. The radio 4 BBC series: Face the Facts broadcast a special forty minute program on March 4 which looked at the history of asbestos in the UK."
Notes on a selection of literature on lung cancer, c.1992. Also includes copies of case correspondence and copy of R Doll and J Peto (1985) 'Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos', with Nancy Tait's instruction to SPAID colleague Martin [Stower]: 'Please list the parts you consider most important or most easily challenged'.
Correspondence and papers re HSE asbestos awareness campaign and HSE joint press announcement (with Dr Julian Peto), 3 March 1995, announcing that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production. Includes:
- press coverage and correspondence arising
- Nancy Tait’s own press statement on the matter, timed to pre-date the HSE announcement; also draft of her article on SPAID and its achievements, written at the request of the British Lung Foundation (BLF)
- Tait’s compilations documenting Dr Peto’s involvement with the asbestos industry; that SPAID had furnished him with the relevant information as early as 1982-1983; and documenting Dr Peto's significantly lower estimates of the risks of asbestos exposure at the time
- further papers 1967-1994 with bearings on the matter
Julian Peto's latest analyses and projections of mesothelioma mortality appeared in 'Lancet' on 4 March 1995 (Peto et al., 'Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain'). They significantly revised his findings, with R Doll, of 1985.
Correspondence with the HSE Epidemiology & Medical Statistic Unit over a prospective case-control study of mesothelioma, for which Dr Julian Peto had been commissioned by HSE. Includes copy of research proposal 'A population based case-control study of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to occupation among British men and women under the age of 60'. Also photocopies of Nancy Tait's correspondence with Dr W Smither re dust measurements, 1976.
Testimony of Dr Julian Peto before the Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario, 29 and 30 July 1981, 2 vols.
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’.
Numbers 1 to 12 (no. 10 missing) of the community newspaper 'Staveley Now'.
The honour of Fellowship of the University of Strathclyde was introduced in 1988. Different from an honorary doctoral degree, it was bestowed by the University Court in appreciation of notably long and distinguished service to the governance of the university. Recipients were presented for admission to Fellowship at the regular degree congregations of the university.
The register records each Fellow's name, signature, and date of admission to Fellowship.
Each year, the University of Strathclyde awards a small number of honorary degrees to people who have made an outstanding contribution to academia and learning, to the university, to society (nationally and/or internationally) or to enterprise or business in their particular field. Honorary degrees are now conferred at the university's regular summer and autumn degree congregations, but were formerly awarded at the annual Commemoration Day ceremony, or at congregations arranged for occasions such as the opening of new buildings on campus.
The registers record each honorary graduate's name, signature, the title of degree conferred, and the date.