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Set of booklets and industry brochures including

• TAC (n.d.) 'Q & A: living and working with TAC's asbestos cement products'
• TAC industry brochures on construction materials and building & insulation products
• TBA [?1970] 'The mineral asbestos'

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

Materials relating to the production of Nancy Tait's ‘The role of SPAID (the Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases) in the prevention of disease and the welfare of sufferers’, chapter 2 in ‘Asbestos: properties, applications and hazards’ vol. 2 ed. Seymour S Chissick and Robert Derricott (Wiley: 1983, 9-62). In reverse chronological order.

Includes

• correspondence including invitation to the book launch
• offprint of the chapter and various draft versions
• appended documents used by Tait to substantiate her claims
• John Wiley & Sons Ltd leaflets

Correspondence and papers on characteristics of glass and asbestos fibres, hazards of inorganic fibres, processing of asbestos waste into a glass substance.

Set of industry brochures on construction materials and occasional correspondence. Includes copies of 'CEM-FIL news' spring 1980 to spring 1983 (incomplete set). Further includes brochures on asbestos encapsulation material Firecheck.

Set of industry brochures insulation. Includes a sample of 'Insul'-tube.

Set of industry brochures on roofing products

Papers relating to the World symposium on asbestos, May 1982. Includes

• copy of 'Asbestos: control or ban? Synthesis of the world symposium on asbestos' (Canadian Asbestos Information Centre, May 1984)
• conference program
• copies of papers by Jean Bignon, Andrew M Pye, John C Wagner, Peter W Preuss, William J Hunter, Philip E Enterline, Malcom Ross and William J Simpson
• leaflets and booklets by Geological Survey, Canada; the Government of Quebec; La Société Minéralogique de la Région de l'Amiante

A single spiral bound notebook with handwritten notes inside, in Nancy Tait's handwriting.
Notes cover topics such as: case details; regulations; research into fibres; political questions; monitoring of asbestos; and general research notes.

Poster reporting on six of the 42 new cases handled by SPAID since October 1983:

• 48 year old maintenance fitter diagnosed with mesothelioma, after only three years occasional contact with asbestos in naval dockyards
• 69 year old mesothelioma patient who worked for Turner & Newall, Manchester, for one year, 30 years ago
• 48 year old mesothelioma patient who came in contact with asbestos during an apprenticeship with ICI, likewise 30 years ago
• 42 year old former merchant seaman and cargo inspector at Plymouth docks, on severe pain medication for his mesothelioma
• 45 year old electrical engineer diagnosed with mesothelioma

Correspondence re a display on asbestos in housing and available asbestos-alternatives, for SPAID's stand at the London International Fire Exhibition, Olympia, 9-13 April 1984.

Press coverage, May to December 1984. In reverse chronological order. 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.

Correspondence aggregated by trade, namely plasterers, painters and a gas mask worker. Appears to have been extracted from OEDA Case File Series 1.

Correspondence in response to enquiries resulting from the London Weekend Television (LWT) Help Programme, 16 April 1984. In alphabetical order.