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Email communications to health and safety listservs from the London Hazards Centre on environmental and occupational health issues (mainly asbestos-related) in the news. Also includes some non-email correspondence and papers sent to Dalton by the Centre.

Letters to Dalton from Bill Lawrence, Tyneside Occupational Health Project. Includes:

• papers on state benefits for asbestos disease, 2000, 2002
• letter from Lawrence to Stephen Byres, MP, on liquidation of Iron Trades Employers Association, January 2001
• correspondence and papers on new drug treatments for mesothelioma, 2002
• Trade Union Studies Information Unit Health & Safety News, 2002

Letters to Dalton from Battersea Redevelopment Action Group re asbestos and demolition activities on Morgan crucible site, Battersea.

Correspondence between Dalton and Barry Castleman, environmental consultant, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include Turner & Newall (including copies of Turner & Newall correspondence, 1938-1964), Richard Doll, Irving Selikoff, World Trade Organization asbestos case.

Correspondence with Alex Horne, of Armadale Community Council, on asbestos dumping at Bathville, Armadale, West Lothian.

Correspondence between Dalton and G.C. Ferguson, Consultant Physician, Northampton General Hospital on two cases of domestic exposure to asbestos. Includes article by Ferguson submitted to British Medical Journal.

Correspondence between Dalton and Alex Reid, Donisthorpe and Co Ltd, on asbestos and railway workers. Includes correspondence between Dalton and British Railways Board.

Letters to Dalton from Professor Paul Holt, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading on calcium silicate. Includes summary of study at Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, into toxicology of calcium silicate.

Correspondence between Dalton and Geoffrey Tweedale, Manchester Metropolitan University. Includes:

• correspondence, February 1999, about Tweedale’s book ‘Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard’ including copy of last two chapters of book annotated by Dalton. Also, explanation by Dalton of what triggered his own interest in asbestos.
• article by Geoffrey Tweedale on the Asbestos Research Council, 2000

Communications to Dalton from Charles Wolfson, Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, enclosing a conference paper and article by Wolfson on the Piper Alpha disaster.

Includes copy of opening statements, 31 October 1995, in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc trial.

Subjects include two medical workers who were mesothelioma sufferers. Also includes Irwin Mirchell newsletter, c. 1998.

Concerns attempts to end employers’ liability insurance system in UK.

Annotated by Dalton.

Correspondence between Dalton and various contacts, mostly on asbestos. Includes email communications to health and safety listservs to which Dalton belonged.