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Display board featuring black and white photographs from an unidentified text on naval dockyards.

Labelled OEDA.

Typescript list of personal injury lawyers, in alphabetical order by name of law firm, several versions.

Correspondence and papers, in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence and papers, in reverse chronological order.

Annotated copies of tables ('Airborne asbestos dust survey results 1961-1972') presented by Turner & Newall plc to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos, yet not included in the published evidence.

Handwritten note added: “I would be glad to know of any conclusions you draw from them”.

Also includes draft letter to G Berry (MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit, Penarth), final version sent 4 March 1980, discussing the Simpson Report. It appears that Nancy Tait had recently visited the Penarth Unit.

Correspondence and papers re the work of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos (ACA / Simpson Committee).

Originally structured as follows:

• drafts for discussion, correspondence re proceedings
• ‘Hansard’
• ‘Press’
• ‘Letters’ [this was empty]
• ‘General information’
• ‘Commission members’
• ‘Oral evidence’ (including that of Nancy Tait and Jean Robinson, Turner & Newall, and Eternit)
• ‘Written evidence’

Photocopies of press reports.

Photocopies of research literature, in alphabetical order (by surname of author). Further includes bibliography, also handwritten notes on some of the papers.

Papers and correspondence re asbestos removal monitoring on Lisson Green Estate, 1984, a joint monitoring exercise involving Westminster City Council, scientific staff at Queen Mary College (QMC), and SPAID in the role of consultant to the tenants association.

Includes laboratory notes on QMC sampling analysis (using electron microscope technology), also report of airborne fibre sampling by the firm MSAX Services and report for SPAID by Casella London Limited Analytical and Environmental Services; this consisted in a 'sketch plan of the airborne fibre sampling programme for 21 Horwood House, Lisson Green Estate [etc]'.

Apparently there were problems with the project. Significantly fewer samples than planned were analysed and no written report emerged.

Correspondence, chiefly with Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), re death certification and re mesothelioma deaths making it into official death statistics. Includes draft of typescript 'Medical certificates of cause of death: notes for medical practitioners' (November 1984).

Copies of notifications of death, England and Wales, 1986-1987. Organised by month, with a table per month listing name, sex, age, diagnosis, inquest (yes/no), verdict ("ind/nat/open") and comments.

Correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's critique of the fibre analysis approach, citing from Dr Allen R Gibbs' testimony to coroners, OEDA's EM findings contradicting those of Gibbs, and explaining that in view of the unreliability of standard fibre analysis techniques, OEDA no longer attempts to calculate the number of fibres present in lung tissue. Includes

• various drafts of OEDA statement 'A critique of fibre analysis techniques' (March 2000) including illustrative materials, among it a nuclepore filter and gold grid; a sample of lung tissue digest has been disposed of in line with the Archives Service's appraisal policy
• letter from occupational health expert Dr Morris Greenberg on 'the importance of fibre that doesn't get to the lung parenchyma ... in the causation of bronchial carcinoma'
• correspondence with Dr M E Jacobsen, 1998, outlining OEDA’s fibre counting approach (based on 10 years experience using the EM) and asking about statistical arguments that could be used to discourage reliance on counts in lung tissue
• post mortem and other medical information on individuals 1995-1999
• copy of ISO 10312:1995 ‘Ambient air - Determination of asbestos fibres - Direct transfer transmission electron microscopy method’
• copies of letters by Dr A R Gibbs

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and press cuttings re the threat posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. Includes:

• OEDA mailshot, May 2003, encouraging c.60 MPs to raise the point that the UK had the highest incidence of MRSA in Europe in the upcoming parliamentary debate
• correspondence with BBC contacts and with Microgenix Ltd, air purification experts
• copy of National Audit Office’s report (February 2000) ‘The management and control of hospital acquired infection in acute NHS trusts in England’
• press coverage on MRSA (in the UK) 1999-2007

Correspondence and papers re the IIAC report reviewing the prescription of asbestos-related diseases (ADR), Cm 6553. Presented to Parliament in February 2005 and published in July 2005, the report admitted that asbestos can lead to lung cancer without asbestosis being present. It was taken to signal UK Government changes to the compensation scheme for asbestos-related lung cancer.

Structured as follows:
-‘IIAC after publication’: correspondence arising (with lawyers, trade unionists, representatives of victims support groups), including congratulatory letters and local press coverage celebrating Nancy Tait for her campaign work

• ‘Media inc Rory O’Neill’: correspondence re errors in graphs used in the report
• ‘LKA Henderson’: correspondence with Laurie Kazan-Allen and a much annotated copy of D W Henderson et al. (2004) ‘After Helsinki: a multidisciplinary review of the relationship between asbestos exposure and lung cancer, with emphasis on studies published during 1997-2004'
• ‘Ministers’ and ‘MPs’: a few press clippings and some incoming correspondence
• ‘Before publication’: correspondence chiefly re delays in the production and publication of the report, January-July 2005. Includes correspondence with Prof A J Newman Taylor (chairman of the IIAC) and a number of MPs, as well as a draft of the IIAC report dated January 2005
• ‘Hugh Robertson’: correspondence with Robertson, Owen Tudor's successor as senior health & safety policy officer of the TUC. Includes draft of the report dated November 2004
• ‘N Tait’: materials from Nancy Tait's mailshots in October 2002 and spring 2004

Also includes copies of

• IIAC ‘Annual report', 2003/4, 2004/5, 2005/6
• Cm 6553 with manually inserted corrected graphs

Correspondence and papers relating to Financial Services Authority (FSA) 'Consultation paper 108: financial services compensation scheme: draft transitional rules'.

Includes

• correspondence with Tony Worthington, MP, and other members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-committee
• Nancy Tait's commentary on the draft transitional rules
• copy of FSA (July 2000) 'Consultation paper 58: financial services compensation scheme draft rules'