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One email and copy of newsletter of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.

Papers and correspondence with and re asbestos victims support in Wales.

Includes

• Nancy Tait’s notes for her presentation; also notes of the conference
• copy of Tait et al. (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, originally presented at Dubrovnik
• copy of The Greens in the European Parliament (1993) ‘The dark side of the asbestos story: presented within the frame of “Bastamiantos“ international symposium on asbestos Milan, April 1993’

Also earlier correspondence with Italian and French anti-asbestos activists (among them Italo Busto) and correspondence arising, re asbestos in railway carriages, work of the ‘Ban Asbestos’ Federation, etc.

Reportedly the conference proceedings were published as 'Atti del Convegno internazionale Bastamianto organizzato da BAEF – Ban Asbestos European Federation, Milano 17-18 aprile 1993', Ban Asbestos European Federation, S. E., Milan, 1994. It is unclear whether Nancy Tait's paper is included.

Correspondence arising from the conference ‘The third wave of asbestos disease’ (referred to by Nancy Tait as "Selikoff's conference") and papers. Includes:

• conference programme, annotated
• report of the exchange between Nancy Tait and Dr Abida Haque at the conference
• Tait's news release on her return from New York and alerts to press contacts
• photocopies of scientific papers 1974-1996 exploring transfer of asbestos to unborn children
• copy of conference proceedings' table of content

There also is a video recording of the conference; see link below.

Correspondence and papers re policy and regulations covering war pensions, compensation from the Ministry of Defence for asbestos-related diseases, and exemption from inheritance tax in case of death from conditions attributable to war service.

Includes listing of 'Forces cases' with asbestos-related diseases, including diagnosis.

Further includes copies of 'Veterans world: newsletter for all those who serve the ex-Service community', 2006, and press coverage 1982-2006.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers (including news reports, HSE publications, fliers, scientific papers on indoor asbestos levels etc.) on the presence of asbestos in schools and on its removal. Includes photocopy SPAID/OEDA index cards on schools, teachers.

Papers and correspondence re asbestos contamination at the site of the former asbestos factory J W Roberts Ltd, Armley near Leeds. Includes press coverage, scientific papers, copies of historic sources 1927-1988, among them

• case correspondence 1986-1993 (including death certificates)
• papers and correspondence chiefly with Dr Lorna Arblaster, researcher on an occupational health study around the Armley site; includes
• soft-bound information pack by Arblaster et al. (1992) 'Aspects of mesothelioma'
• copy of I M D Grieve's MD thesis (University of Edinburgh, 1927) on asbestos deaths at the J W Roberts factory at Armley. See also link below.

Copies of outgoing correspondence in a series of originally 82 volumes, in chronological order.
Correspondence topics cover many of SPAID/OEDA's functions such as advocacy, networking and administrative communications however a large proportion of the correspondence is related to cases of asbestosis and compensation claims.

Incomplete. The following 35 volumes are missing:

• vol 1 (? to September 1979)
• vols 5-26 (October 1981 to April 1988)
• vols 34-45 (May 1990 to January 1993)

By 1978 Nancy Tait was, in her own words: "concerned with all aspects of the [asbestos] problem, since I provide information for the UK and European Parliaments, the DHSS and many other bodies, and have given written and oral evidence to the government Advisory Committee on asbestos. I am at present advising a Committee of the EEC ..." (to British Rail, Doncaster, 1 March 1978)

Includes early correspondence of Nancy Tait and materials focusing in particular on asbestos on railway and underground systems.

Correspondence mainly with Adrian Budgen, at the time Head of the Asbestos Disease Litigation Unit at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, and papers. Covers current cases, legal developments, specific issues (e.g. preservation of tissue in asbestos cases / PRO instructions to destroy coroners’ record after 15 years), conferences, fibre counts, OEDA fundraising, etc.

For earlier correspondence with Budgen, see link below.

Set of standard letters and slips. Includes copy of instructions 'New case procedures' for progressing new enquiries.

Papers and correspondence with and re HSE consultative document for revised Asbestos Regulations and an Approved Code of Practice (CD 205), in particular re the proposal to remove asbestos-containing textured decorative coatings from the licensing regime. Includes

• extensively annotated copy of Kevin Walkin and Geoff Lloyd (2006) 'A comparison of risks from different materials containing asbestos'
• copy of response to CD 205 by Adrian K Watson
• copy of summary of responses to CD 205 received
• copy of Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA) document 'Questions raised and HSE's response following consultation on the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006'
• summary of responses to CD 205 to be discussed at a stakeholder meeting on 4 April 2006
• Nancy Tait's comments and response to CD 205
• minutes of meeting of the All Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-Committee, 22 November 2005
• various versions of minutes of stakeholder meeting to discuss HSE proposals to implement the amendments to the Asbestos Worker Protection Directive (AWPD), 11 August 2005
• Nancy Tait's comments on the stakeholder meeting of 11 August 2005

Copy of program and a few other papers relating to the xixth International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978.

Includes abstract of joint presentation by Nancy Tait and patient activist Jean Robinson on the inadequacies of then present methods of compiling statistics for occupational disease and on how regulations governing the award of industrial injury benefits inhibit the investigation of occupational risks that affect workers and their families.

Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She was a patient activist and had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Copy of brochure, originally comb-bound, containing the following seminar papers:

• William Evans (partner at Dibb Lupton Broomhead) 'The future for claims covered by insurance'
• Phil Bell (liability insurance manager, Sun Alliance) 'Lessons learned by underwriters?'

Two further presentation - Prof. Julian Peto on 'The future incidence and causes of asbestos related disease' and Prof. Andrew Newman-Taylor on 'The increase in the incidence of asthma and implications for the future' - are missing.