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In reverse chronological order, roughly.

Papers and a little covering correspondence re the proposed US Senate bill ‘to amend the Toxic Substance Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products’ and the contemporary asbestos compensation crisis in the US. Includes

• copy of Senator Murray’s proposed bill
• copies of Judge Griffin B Bell’s June 2002 speeches on asbestos litigation and judicial leadership

In Nancy Tait's circles, people monitoring these developments included Own Tudor, Laurie Kazan-Allen and Adrian Budgeon.

Correspondence re obtaining a copy of the commission’s report, excerpts from the report, copy of Terence G Ison (1982) ‘Workers’ compensation and asbestos in Ontario: a commentary on the report [to the Royal Commission …] of Peter S Barth’

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the Cape Asbestos Fund. Includes successive proposals 'for a scheme of arrangement in respect of asbestos liabilities’.

Set of industry brochures on construction materials, flooring, roofing, insulation, weather coating and paints, protective clothing, etc., with occasional correspondence. The majority of the material was assembled 1980-1984, both as a resource for creating SPAID's information displays and as a resource for answering inquiries about specific asbestos-containing products and asbestos-free substitutes. The displays were used as part of the SPAID stand at conferences and similar occasions.

Original housing of some of the material suggests that SPAID placement student Eleni Michael gathered a significant portion of the brochures.

• correspondence and papers re Rita Ann Ashdown, mesothelioma victim, who had lived in a Council flat on the Harts Lane Estate in Barking, the former site of a Cape Asbestos factory. Includes particulars of claim Rita Ann Ashdown v. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2002; press coverage 2001-2003
• correspondence and papers re Barbara Ann Mead, d. 2002 of mesothelioma: transcript of coroners proceedings
• correspondence and papers re Barking, 1993-2001, including telephone memoranda, solicitors’ correspondence and press coverage
• copy of a report by Dr Kevin Browne, 25 January 1995, on a recent claim brought against Cape by a Barking resident
• correspondence with Peter Brady, Dublin, 1986, on his own case against Cape, including photocopy of minutes of a meeting of directors of Cape Insulation (Ireland) Ltd, 1977
• SPAID correspondence re Barking 1983-1986
• articles on SPAID‘s work 1984-1985, typescript of case notes Homerton University Hospital, Hackney, from Nancy Tait’s presentation (with Dr V J Harvey), ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983
• reports (1983) on safety arrangements at Cape Asbestos, Barking, and copies of related records 1956-1968, received through Anthony T Mendelle via litigator Richard Meeran. Including photocopies of Cape Asbestos Barking Factory Annual Report 1961 & 1962, also report on a visit to Cape subsidiary plants in the USA (n.d.). Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking

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.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to December 1999. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Financial records of SPAID / OEDA 1982-2005, in reverse chronological order. For 1988-1990, there are highly detailed spending records on the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU).

Includes copies of audited accounts, listings of accruals and reversals, annual income and expenditure sheets, annual balance sheets, profit and loss summaries, reports to the auditor, annual electron microscope costs for some years, National Insurance Employer's Annual Return for some years, separate account sheets for OEDA while both organisations overlapped 1993-1995.

Correspondence and papers relating to the refurbishment of the SPAID offices at Mitre House, Enfield, to create the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU).

Includes correspondence and papers on EM equipment, specifications of the refurbishment work, correspondence with contractors (Multiworth Ltd) and the architectural firm (Architects Co-Partnership (ACP)). Also copy of lease.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and order forms, chiefly re benefits leaflets and forms requisitioning from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Department of Social Security (DSS) and the Benefits Agency (BA).

Includes correspondence re leaflets NI 226, NI 272 (NI226, NI272).

Set of asbestos leaflets and flyers.

Offprints, preprints, photocopies, typescripts of drafts (etc.) of scientific papers.

Arranged alphabetically by title of publication.

Copies of transcripts of the deposition taken 10 and 11 October 1994.