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Correspondence between Dalton and Steve Tombs, sociologist, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, on industrial accidents in the chemical industry. Includes two academic papers, 1990 and 1991, written by Tombs.

Letter to Dalton from Courtney Davis enclosing draft of University of Southampton PhD thesis by Davis entitled ‘Corporate violence, regulatory agencies and the management and deflection of censure’.

Correspondence between Dalton and Professor F.D.K. Liddell on research by Liddell on asbestos.

Series of files on asbestos-related topics. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.

Folder of material gathered by Dalton on the history of the awareness and knowledge of the risks of asbestos. Numbered and annotated by Dalton. Includes copies of:

• annual reports and correspondence of Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, 1898-1947
• Home Office reports, 1930-1935
• annual report of Medical Officer of Health, London Borough of Barking, 1945
• Turner & Newall correspondence, 1943-1957
• academic articles and publications, 1904-1994
• press cuttings, 1920s-1983

Correspondence and papers on proposal to dispose asbestos at sea by Bermudan Government.

Papers on removal of social security benefits from asbestos-related disease sufferers awarded compensation. Includes:

• report by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, 1994
• fourth report of House of Commons Social Security Committee on compensation recovery, 1995

Correspondence and papers on asbestos and other environmental pollution in Camden. Topics include:

• asbestos in Camden Schools
• asbestos in factory in Kentish Town
• air pollution

Correspondence and papers on remedial work for asbestos contamination at Carr Head Landfill, Pecket Well, Hebden Bridge. Includes:

• press coverage
• correspondence with local residents
• remedial work feasibility report
• correspondence between Dalton and Environment Agency

Correspondence and papers on Lloyds of London and asbestos. Includes:

• minutes of evidence taken before Treasury and Civil Service Committee on financial services regulation relating to Lloyd’s of London, February 1995
• press cuttings
• letter from Dalton to The Independent, May 1995

Correspondence and papers relating to collapse of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd. Concerns scheme of arrangement to pay asbestos compensation claims. Correspondents include: Nancy Tait, Tommy Gorman, Owen Tudor.

Correspondence and papers on polluting asbestos factory in Ireland. Also includes correspondence and papers on Raybestos-Manhattan (Ireland) factory at Ovens, County Cork, Ireland.

Report by Tony Bingham, elastomers chemist, on Scandura [an asbestos product].

Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.

Papers on testimony in 1907 of Dr. Montague Murray, senior physician at Charing Cross Hospital, to Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.