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Dr Craske prepared a paper on The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

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The Annual Reports on the Work of the Prison Department noted the practice of blood donation sessions in prisons.

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The Annual Reports on the Work of the Prison Department noted the practice of blood donation sessions in prisons

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The Annual Reports on the Work of the Prison Department included the last mention of blood donor collection from prisons.

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Lord David Trefgarne wrote a letter to Nicholas Baker MP. In the letter he stated that he appreciated the anxiety amongst people with haemophilia and their families which recent press reports on AIDS may have caused, and then stated "the cause of AIDS is as yet unknown and there is no conclusive proof that the disease has been transmitted by American blood products".

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Lord Glenarthur wrote a letter to Nicholas Baker MP which provided information about the monitoring of AIDS cases by the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. The letter ended by saying "Finally, I would like to stress that there is as yet no proof that AIDS is transmitted by blood or blood products".

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Following the death of a patient from AIDS at the Bristol Haemophilia Centre, Dr Geoffrey Scott wrote a letter to allay patients' fears. In the letter Dr Scott used terminology that was very similar to the Government's line to take.

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Lord Glenarthur wrote a letter to Jerry Wiggin MP in response to a letter from a constituent whose 14 year old son had haemophilia. He stated that he appreciated the anxiety amongst those with haemophilia and their families which recent press reports on AIDS may have caused, and then stated "the cause of AIDS is as yet unknown and there is no conclusive proof that the disease has been transmitted by American blood products".

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The Guardian published an article "Blood donor passes Aids virus to baby" which revealed instances of HIV being transmitted through blood donation in the UK.

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The Guardian published an article "Warning to gays still donating blood" which reported that homosexual donors continued to donate blood, because they believed the leaflets only applied to promiscuous homosexuals.

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A newspaper article titled "AIDS leaflet" reported the Scottish Health Minister, Mr John Mackay, had announced a revised leaflet on AIDS.

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The Mail on Sunday article "The Scandal of Peter Palmer's Death" reported on the death of a patient with haemophilia, the first to die of AIDS in the UK in consequence of treatment with Factor 8 concentrate.

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The Welsh Office released a statement to be used in response to requests on reports of AIDS deaths in South Glamorgan. It stated that the risk of AIDS was "very small" compared to the benefits of treatment with concentrates.

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Dr Galbraith wrote to Dr Crompton with an update on the report of a case of AIDS in a blood donor in Wessex and a nurse who had seroconverted to HTLV-3 following a needlestick injury.

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The South Glamorgan District Health Authority held a meeting to discuss AIDS

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A briefing was provided to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, copied to the Secretary of State and CMO.

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Risks to patients from the use of whole blood were said to be negligible, with "no evidence" that any patient had contracted the disease in the UK from this source.

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A briefing stated that there were at present "a very few haemophiliac patients in South Wales," but that it was "likely that some may have received treatment with Factor 8 which might have been contaminated."

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At a meeting of the CMO Welsh Office reference was made to the donor whose donations had been used for whole blood transfusion and for the production of concentrate, some of which had "found its way to Wales".

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At a meeting of the CMO Welsh Office the existing leaflet was said to be liberally distributed at every donor session "it was still thought unsafe to rely upon this as the sole means of weeding out the homosexual population from amongst potential blood donors" and "the matter of a more detailed questionnaire could usefully be pursued."

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