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Copies of 'Asbestos watch: newsletter of the White Lung Association' 1991-1995 (incomplete set) and of 'Asbestos update' May 1995-September 1998.

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.

• 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.

Soft-bound set of industry brochures, compiled for the '1983 building industry convention', London, 25-29 April 1983.

Correspondence including a mailshot to all GMWU Thermal Insation Engineer (TIE) Officers in the regions inquiring what advice they give re stripping of asbestos, 29 July 1982.

Table of cases 1-411 (2 January 1986-21 March 1986) and 1-58 (2 June 1987-6 September 1987), 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.

Includes inscription (on cardboard backing): 'Overseas cases on the back of sheet one' and 'Donations to be invited also 1986-1987'.

Table of cases 1-945 (4 September 1987-3 December 1990), 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.

Overseas cases inscribed on cardboard backing of the register.

Post-it note 'Third schedule'.

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.

A4 size address book of cases (name / address / disease).

Marked up using the following colour code:

• red: SPAID/OEDA asbestos-related case register
• green: claim no longer proceeding
• brown: pre-employment medical taken little notice of
• blue + pink: claim started + settled – length of time taken

Red notebook, previously used to list history of science literature c.1900-1960. Repurposed to record names, occasionally also addresses, of individuals with some asbestos affiliation (suffering from an asbestos-related disease, related to a victim, worried about asbestos in the home, etc.). It is unclear whether the compilation is based solely on SPAID clients or whether it also includes cases that came to the organisation's attention solely through media reports and similar.

Ordered by first letter of surname.

Board bearing this caption, with four black and white photographs arranged to reproduce one single view through the microscope.

'UICC chrysotile standard' presumably refers to Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) reference chrysotile. Not all types of chrysotile appear to have the same capacity to cause mesothelioma.

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Board bearing this caption, with three black and white photographs showing amosite (x5k), chrysotile (x15k) and crocidolite (x15k).

Display board visualising the gradual decline of asbestos imports into the UK, 1968-1983.

Labelled 'SPAID'.

Display board visualising an ideal SPAID conference stand.

Display board visualising the presence of asbestos in common plasters and fillers, and asbestos-free substitutes.