2 April 1938 INTRODUCTION: ABORIGINAL RESERVES This report arises from enquiries made in the course of investigation into the activities of certain Northern Territory missions, with a view to the granting of subsidies. The matters there investigated proved so diverse and the subject of mission activities in certain areas was found to be so intricately […]
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 […]
Health in Tropical Australia – 1950 [EN 8/3]
The following represents a synopsis of a lengthy report upon health administration and associated problems in Northern Australia. Statements made positively in this synopsis without discussion or qualification can be supported by reference to the more detailed report. The situation confronting the Commonwealth in tropical Australia may be outlined as follows: Three factors which have […]
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 […]