The Northern Territory Medical Service was established in 1928 to provide effectual machinery to control and eliminate endemic tropical disease from Northern Australia and to ensure that the area might be maintained as one suitable for permanent occupation by a healthy and prosperous white community. Fundamental to its organisation were two basic principles of policy, […]
Proposed Native Welfare Ordinance: Northern Territory [EN 8/65, 66]
DIRECTOR-GENERAL: I have today for the first time, had an opportunity of cursorily examining the “Bill for an Ordinance to provide for the Care and Assistance of Certain Persons”, recently rejected by the Northern Territory Legislative Council. As the Bill is presumably now under review I am prompted to offer certain comments which I feel […]
Health Interest in Native Administration – 1953 [EN 8/67]
The future of successful settlement and development in Northern Australia is entirely dependent upon the control of certain tropical diseases endemic or likely to become endemic in the tropical environment. Prevailing environmental conditions will make the control of tropical disease difficult even in an enlightened white population. The existence of a substantial section of the […]
Current standards in the control of communicable diseases – 1954
The Director-General of Health Hygiene – Northern Territory In the course of my recent itinerary through the Northern Territory, I made a cursory enquiry into the current standards in the control of communicable diseases. The following observations are submitted to indicate desirable improvements in prophylactic routine. I should like, at the outset, to emphasise that […]
Native Health and the Labour Force in the Northern Territory [EN 8/69]
This article is a summary of an address given by Dr. C.E. Cook, Senior Medical Officer, Commonwealth Department of Health, to a Conference on Native Employment in the Northern Territory, held in Sydney on the 24th February, 1955. In the Northern Territory, as in other tropical regions, the environment is ideal for the intense endemicity […]
Health Problems of the Northern Territory
A paper read by Dr. C.E. Cook before the Australian Academy of Science, Brisbane, 25th May, 1956. In general, the health problems of the Northern Territory are those of the rest of northern Australia, but her they acquire special features owing to the unusual structure of the population. The problems themselves derive from: The tropical […]
Notable changes in the incidence of disease in Northern Territory Aborigines
by C.E. COOK (1963) Abstract Few of the diseases which in the past century have scourged the native population of the Northern Territory were indigenous. Exotic infections introduced into areas where native society was intact disappeared under the inhibitory conditions created by the environment and native habit. Only when natives were concentrated into settlements without […]
Submission to Inquiry into the Health Services in the Northern Territory 1972
PREFATORY My purpose in tendering this submission is to draw the attention of the Board of Inquiry to what I believe to be certain fundamental requirements of the Medical and Hospital Service in the Northern Territory with which members may not be familiar, and the importance of which may not otherwise be brought to their […]
Cook – Fenton letters
2A Cattai Ridge RoadGLENORIE N.S.W. 215711 August 1971 Dr C.C. Fenton 42-78 Queens RoadMelbourne 3004 Dear Clyde, Your letter [not on Dr Cook’s file] only arrived this morning so I am answering it immediately in case the Postmaster-General subjects my reply to a similar delay. You have so phrased your letter as to suggest that you […]