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John Pickering cases
GB 249 OEDA/B/2/3/1 · File · 1983, 2003-2007
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence relating to OEDA cases referred to John Pickering & Partners, Solicitors. In alphabetical order by surname of client. Includes

  • listing of OEDA cases by case number, client name, John Pickering & Partners solicitor, and date made into a compensation case

Also contains a copy of UK statutory instrument ‘Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and miscellaneous diseases benefit scheme 1983’.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), in alphabetical order by surname of physician, occasionally also by case name. Covers a range of themes yet most extensively current cases.

Includes correspondence with Dr G S Basran of Rotherham General Hospital, including papers from the meeting 'Asbestos related diseases’, Rotherham medical seminars for lawyers, Rotherham General Hospital, 2 February 1996.

Measuring airborne asbestos

Correspondence, notes, scientific reports and papers, press reports, also product information relating to the analysis/measurement of asbestos exposure, levels and guidelines, and sampling equipment. Includes

  • Asbestosis Research Council (ARC) technical notes on dust sampling and measurement of airborne asbestos dust, c.1978
  • product information re Charles Austen Pumps Ltd, Casella London Ltd, Rotheroe & Mitchell Ltd
  • copy of F S Gill and I Ashton [1982] ‘Monitoring for health hazards at work’
  • copy of E Gonzalez-Fernandez and F R Martín (1986) 'Comparison of NIOSH and AIA methods for evaluating asbestos fibres: effects of asbestos type, mounting medium, graticule type and counting rules', Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 30(4): 397-410
  • EPA report by G Dufour et al. (1980) ‘Measurement of asbestos air pollution inside buildings sprayed with asbestos’, with related correspondence and notes on the report
  • correspondence with Dr Morris Greenberg and Dr K Duncan of the Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS)
  • leaflets by and about the organisation
  • correspondence re EMAS report 1975-1976, ‘Mortality of asbestos workers in England and Wales 1971-1981’
  • transcript of BBC news report by Gavin Scott, featuring Dr K Duncan, Max Madden MP, Joe Walker and Nancy Tait, c.1977

Further includes

  • copy of HSE (1981) ‘Health and safety: employment medical advisory service report 1979-1980’
  • EMAS & HSE Guidance Notes (medical series)
  • copy of ‘H&S Bulletin’ 1978 (re recent EMAS report)

Structured into ‘correspondence’ and 'other'.

Correspondence is 1979-1985, some of it original, and includes a version of John Todd's compilation on asbestos victims from the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), 1975-1983; also correspondence with G E ('Ted') Rushworth, the HSE, DHSS, etc.

Papers are 1972-1984 and include

  • copies of 'UK in figures' 1978-1983 and 'Guide to government statistics' 1980, 1984
  • notes and papers c.1972-1985 including press coverage, excerpts from Hansard reports, telephone memoranda, graphs, tables of ‘Death certificates mentioning asbestos-related disease’ (based on Hansard), copies of 'Home Office statistical bulletin' 1982 & 1983, HSE health & safety statistics, occasional and annotated copies of ‘OPCS Monitor’, photocopies of ‘Social security statistics’, Central Statistical Office’s ‘Annual abstract of statistics’ and ‘Social trends’, annotated copy of an early issue of 'SPAID news', and HSE’s ‘Digest of pneumoconiosis statistics'

Originally included a photocopy (not annotated) of M J Gardner et al. (1983) 'Atlas of cancer mortality in England and Wales, 1968-1978'. A copy of the original work can be consulted in Special Collections (see Library Catalogue at http://suprimo.lib.strath.ac.uk/).

Paper and correspondence with and re HSE proposals to amend the control of asbestos at work (CAW) regulations. Includes

  • correspondence with the HSE, in particular Jeanie Cruickshank and Carole Grainger
  • Nancy Tait's comments on HSE consultative document CD 159 (2000) on 'Proposals for amendments to the control of asbestos at work (CAW) regulations 1987 [etc]'
  • copy of House of Commons Research Paper 99/81 (5 October 1999) 'Asbestos'
  • OEDA response to HSE consultative document CD 140 (1998) on 'Proposed amendments to the asbestos (prohibitions) regulations 1992'
  • OEDA response to HSE consultative document CD 129 (1998) on 'Proposals for amendments to the asbestos regulations and supporting approved codes of practice'; also responses by GMB (General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union) and by John Flanagan (Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group)

End matter is copies of scientific and legal papers including

  • excerpt from J Addison & L S T Davies (1990) ‘Analysis of amphibole asbestos in chrysotile and other minerals’
  • extract from memorandum of law of plaintiff, Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc and Turner & Newall Ltd, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1989
  • copy of typescript G W Crockford & D Gazzi (1983) ‘Airborne asbestos dust survey of the Lisson Green flats: final report’
  • copy of 1981 announcement of HSC asbestos scheme
  • copy of William J Campbell et al. (1979) ‘Relationship of mineral habit to size characteristics for tremolite cleavage fragments and fibers’, Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation
Home Office circular 18/1980

Correspondence with MPs, trade unionists, the Home Office, the media etc., chiefly re Home Office circular 18/1980 ‘Deaths believed to be due to a prescribed industrial disease’ and ‘Pneumoconiosis and related occupational diseases: notes on diagnosis and claims for industrial injuries benefits’. Includes press coverage.

The circular in question asked for consultation between coroners' pathologist and Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels (PMP) before the post mortem report and death certificate are completed. Nancy Tait felt that such attempts to obtain an agreed diagnosis would not be made were her criticisms of PMP without substance; thus justifying her calls for a reform of the PMP.