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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.

Printout of the OEDA case database in the form of a table, 28 July 2003. 171 pp, listing cases 2-3650 (with gaps) and cases 4001-10,000 (with extensive gaps), followed by a few rows with anomalous case numbers. This and other indicators suggest that there may have been a technical problem with the database.

The printout appears to have been generated to support OEDA's case for continued funding from Association of London Government (ALG; formerly the London Boroughs Grant Unit, LBGU), the organisation's main source of funding since 1983.

Includes:

• note from Nancy Tait proposing to use this printout, rather than the electronic database, to record important updates henceforth
• overview of codes and what each column in the database is intended for

• copy of ‘UK asbestos – the definitive guide’ (2004), produced by a working party under chairmanship of Julian Lowe of Norwich Union
• Nancy Tait's notes on the text and correspondence with Rodney Nelson Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse

The guide discusses the estimated future cost to the UK insurance industry of asbestos-related claims (£4-£10 billion), November 2004. Nelson-Jones suspected that the insurance industry exaggerated these costs.

Table of cases 3001-3735 (11 August 1997-13 March 2007), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted OEDA, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, comments.

This schedule marks a departure from previous practice, in that columns that remained empty in past registers have been removed. Also, the third column now bears the new name of the organisation.

Public service message from the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Monochrome poster visualising the presence of asbestos in the home environment. Includes drawings of household appliances that may contain asbestos and schematic drawing of house and garage, identifying where asbestos may be present.

Poster featuring the electron microscope used at the SPAID / OEDA Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU). Subtitled 'A new name for an exciting microscope providing TEM, SEM and STEM modes, plus elements analysis - that's TEMSCAN'. Additional labels were added by SPAID / OEDA: 'asbestos body' and 'chrysotile'.

Shows Harts Lane area, Barking.

Poster issued by the US Department of Labour.

Prepared by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW) International Union, and designed by Joseph Jacobs, written by Molly Coye MD and produced by Dorothy Cochrane.

OSHA No. 3038.

Table of cases 1333-3000 (19 May 1992-8 August 1997), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Poster listing where asbestos may be present at home, with instructions to proceed with caution.