NORTHERN TERRITORY MEDICAL SERVICEDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR As a result of my investigations, I have come to the conclusion that it is highly desirable that there should be a change in the control of the Medical Service of the Northern Territory. The present Chief Medical Officer, although efficient and very keen on his work, has […]
Transfer of the N.T. Medical Service to the Commonwealth [EN 5/64]
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIADEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,CANBERRA, A.C.T. 12th December 1938 MEMORANDUM: His Honour, The Administrator of the Northern Territory,DARWIN. NORTHERN TERRITORY MEDICAL SERVICE. The Government have decided – That the Northern Territory Medical Service be made a branch of the Commonwealth Department of Health and be controlled by the Director-General of Health; That the Officer in […]
Native Administration and Public Health [EN 7/93, 94]
A report to the NHMRC Committee on Tropical Physiology and Hygieneby C.E. Cook, M.D., Commissioner of Public Health, W.A. (1948) Health control in the North and North-west of Australia is beset with special difficulties and necessities which are not met to the same extent elsewhere. (a) The major portion of the area is tropical in […]
The Native in relation to Public Health – 1949 [EN 6/34, 7/103]
Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, April 30, 1949, page 569, read at a meeting of the Section of Public Health, Tuberculosis and tropical Medicine, Australasian Medical Congress (British Medical Association) Sixth Session, Perth, August 1948 By C.E. Cook, M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M. and H.,Commissioner of Public Health, Western Australia The importance of the Australian […]
Health and Native Administration
Formerly health administration and native policy were closely integrated. The principle was accepted that the functions of Health and Native Administration were fundamentally identical and the Chief Medical Officer was also the Chief Protector. Changes in the administrative establishment divorcing native administration from the Health Authority have deprived the latter of the opportunity either to […]
Letter to the Minister on Health Problems in Northern Australia [EN 8/14]
Director-General You will recall your direction that I prepare for the Minister, before his visit to the Territory, a submission on the health problems created by the Northern Territory native and make recommendations in respect of these. This submission has now been prepared and copy is attached for the Minister’s information. CE Cook (Note inserted […]
The 1953 Missions Administration Conference [EN 8/45]
An extract from the Conference transcript (p11-18) The Agenda was amended to provide for the presentation of PASTOR F.W. ALBRECHT’S paper, UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA. “Economic Rehabilitation of Aborigines” prior to that of Dr Cook’s. DR. C.E. COOK, SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER, COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, CANBERRA, on addressing the Conference on the subject “Educating […]
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 […]
Aboriginal Protection – Aid or Hindrance to Integration?
A paper given by Dr Cook to the A.N.Z.A.A.S Conference in Adelaide 1969, extracted from Berndt’s edited proceedings of the conference From the time of Phillip it has been the acknowledged policy and objective of Australian governments to foster the friendship and co-operation of the indigenous inhabitants, and to extend the protection of the law […]
Problems obstructing the adaptation of the Aboriginal into white society
A paper Dr Cook presented at the A.N.Z.A.A.S conference held in Brisbane – 1971 What I am about to say will, I am afraid, make no scientific contribution to the symposium we have enjoyed during the past few days, yet I venture to hope my message may prove as important as any other to scientists […]