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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.

Documents the foundation, by the Society of Labour Lawyers, of the ‘[SPAID] Legal Working Party’ (originally called ‘Asbestosis Working Group’) and some of its meetings 1980-1986. The brief of the working party was 'to examine the law and procedure on asbestosis claims, with particular reference to the inter-relationship between Coroners' Courts and the Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels'. The idea was to create a forum for helping Nancy Tait with research and also 'a useful tool for Parliamentary lobbying without infringing SPAID's charitable status'.

Press coverage, foliated and structured by subject: asbestos; cancer generally; health and safety generally; radiation / nuclear; justice and information; miscellaneous. Arranged in reverse order of foliation.

Front matter includes tables of systematically extracted case information from press reports (often with named cause of death).

The first 45 folios are missing. These originally included information on William Ashton Tait.

Deposition of Dr Kevin Browne (10 July 1992), in John L May (Archbishop of St Louis) et al. v. AC&S et al., United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division.

Includes:

• soft-bound copy of the deposition with appended material including Dr Browne's cv
• excerpts from it with SPAID annotations; these in multiple copies, suggesting that they were distributed either within the SPAID officer and/or among the organisation's network

Further includes covering letter from Michael O'Connor, legal Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, announcing 'the following documents by T&N show the relationship between T&N and Dr K. Browne in the 1980s', followed by copies of a letter from Dr Browne re Ratcliffe v. BBA Group Ltd, 7 January 1987 with scientific papers 1974-1986.

Press coverage 1975-2007, with the exception of 1983.

Committee papers (agendas and minutes of meetings, circulated material) and correspondence.

Correspondents include MPs Nigel Spearing and Max Madden, as well as sundry legal experts among them Julian Fulbrook, Rodney Nelson-Jones, and John Pickering.

Contains case correspondence.

A noteworthy achievement of the early work of the Legal Working Party was the Industrial Diseases (Notification) Bill, read twice in January 1981, which led to the introduction of a new form of death certificate, asking medical practitioners to consider whether or not the death might have been due to or contributed to by the employment followed at some time by the deceased. The form also listed categories of death with potentially industrial origin, including asbestos as a cause of lung cancer.

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.

Fundraising correspondence, structured roughly as listed in the inscription on the container.

• copies of HSE news releases (from February 1976 called ‘Health & safety bulletin’) October 1975 – July 1978 with occasional annotations (e.g. ‘Find Rushworth’s comments’, ‘Mines’, ‘Simpson’, ‘p. 4 asbestos’, ‘Simpson Committee’, ‘no asbestos’, ‘Petra [Kelly]’ /’sent’ etc.)
• also copy of news release 24 August 1983, 'Asbestos'

Obituaries of Nancy Tait collected by her colleague and friend Joan Griffiths. Further includes:

• correspondence between Nancy Tait and British Rail over her ticket, 1975, illustrating her tenaciousness
• Joan Griffiths' compilation on Nancy Tait's achievements
• Nancy Tait's questionnaire for the research project 'Citizen involvement in health care: meanings, motivations and means', Health in Partnership Project, Department of Health, 2001

Excerpts from 'Hansard' and typescript Parliamentary Questions, usually annotated and/or marked.

Originally in multiple duplicates.

Correspondence and papers re joint publication of R C Stein, J Y Kitajewska, J B Kirkham, N Tait, G Sinha and R M Rudd, in 'Respiratory medicine' 83 (1989): 237-239. Discusses the case of a 54-year old female office worker who developed pleural mesothelioma 14 years after commencement of exposure to amosite asbestos at her place of work.

Includes

• offprint and drafts in various stages
• correspondence with American litigator Patrick S Guilfoyle, who expressed an interest in accessing the text prior to publication
• photocopies of correspondence with William McKelvey MP, 1985, re the threat posed by asbestos
• photocopies of earlier correspondence relating to Nancy Tait's fact-finding mission, among them a letter from DHSS to her son John W Tait, at the time a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge

For Tait this scientific publication grew out of her recent case work. The other authors were researchers at the London Chest Hospital (Rudd, Sinha, Stein) and the Biological Electron Microscopy Unit of Queen Mary College London (Kitajewska and Kirkham). Brian Kirkham was an expert on electron microscopy; in the early days of the SPAID Electron Microscope (EM) Unit, SPAID retained him as an EM consultant. He also trained SPAID’s EM technician Lawrie Hawkins.

• registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
• information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
• some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
• standard forms authorising Nancy Tait to access her clients' medical records

Press coverage, January to December 1980. In reverse chronological order with some thematic, non-chronological aggregations. Original cuttings mostly mounted.

Mainly on asbestos (all aspects - impact on health, state of the industry, regulation, accountability of lawyers, etc) but also covers other themes, including agent orange.

Correspondence and papers re various editions of the information pack 'Problems arising from the use of asbestos in buildings: papers assembled by SPAID'.

Includes copies of various SPAID notes from the pack, as well as SPAID note 22A ('Asbestos in buildings: effects on health and exposure'), reproducing the Health & Safety Commission publication on the topic by Richard Doll and Julian Peto, 1985. Further, former note 49 ('Industry information: the mineral asbestos'), from 'Asbestos - its special attributes and uses' of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), 1975.