Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), notes and papers. In alphabetical order by name of the enquirer (affected individual, family member, social worker, asbestos activist, organisation) or name mentioned in press coverage.Contains detai...
BBC Advice Shop, 5 February 1987
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from BBC Advice Shop programme broadcast on 5 February 1987. In alphabetical order.
BBC Advice Shop, 1 February 1988
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Chiefly SPAID response to inquiries prompted by the BBC Advice Shop programme transmitted on 1 February 1988, in alphabetical order. Nancy Tait appeared in the programme, which was about fighting for DHSS claims.
BBC, Newsround South East, 4 August 1993
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from a BBC Newsround South East feature on asbestos. Includes:correspondence with Fiona Bruce, BBC, including re individuals affected by asbestos-related disease who are willing to talk to the BBC, ...
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from an article by Andrew Bibby, 'Did your work make you sick?', in 'Choice' November 1993, p.42. Includes:copy of the articleSPAID information packinformation requests, in alpha...
Information provided for the economic advisor of the Embassy of Honduras, Brussels
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Response to a request for information from Mr B Zapata, 1987.
Articles in magazines, 1979-1991
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Photocopies (often marked “master” & “copies”) of articles by Nancy Tait and her colleagues, many of them from the magazine ‘Health and safety at work’ (HSW). Originally in multiple copies. As follows:Nancy Tait, ‘A ban on asbestos?’ (‘The con...
Nancy Tait (n.d.) 'The prevention of asbestos diseases: activities of SPAID'
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Correspondence with George A Peters, Santa Monica (USA), re a chapter on SPAID for vol. 10 or 11 of the 'Sourcebook on asbestos diseases’, ed. George A Peters and Barbara J Peters.Includesinvitation to contribute to the 'Sourcebook'...
Fibre counts: distribution and revenue
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Distribution and sale of OEDA publications ‘Asbestos fibres in lung tissue’ and the companion, ‘Asbestos: to challenge “fibre counts”’.The audience for these publications were chiefly solicitors.
Display boards on Mr Geddes Murray
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Display boards on the case of Mr Geddes Murray, painter, decorator and demolition contractor, d. March 1985 aged 51. The Guildford Coroner ruled that Murray’s lung cancer was caused by occupational exposure to asbestos, a ruling SPAID regarded as ...
Display boards on Mr Derrick Porter
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Display boards on the case of Mr Derrick Porter, a roofer, d. 1981 from mesothelioma after cutting asbestos sheets for 12 years from 1948 to 1960.Includes black and white photographs of lung digest samples and lung tissue sections examined using t...
Display boards on ferruginous bodies and lavage
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
legend explaining how the lung can protect itself from asbestos fibres (marked D14 at the back)board with four black and white photographs of ferruginous bodies, mounted (marked B19 at the back)board captioned 'Lavage' with five black an...
Display boards of graphs of x-ray micro-analysis
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
board with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Amosite asbestos - air sample' (marked 'B27' at the back)board with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Anthophyllite asbestos' (marked 'B31' at the back)sheet ...
Display board on ‘Work in a naval dockyard 1968'
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Display board featuring black and white photographs from an unidentified text on naval dockyards.Labelled OEDA.
Display board on challenging unhelpful news reports
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
Display board reproducing correspondence with the Times following an article perceived as mocking contemporary fears of asbestos, published from 29 August 1983.The newspaper article appeared with the headline 'Wanted, a saviour for St Asbesto...