by Harry Giese March-May 1981 Series No. NTRS 226, TS 179 This record of interviews is based on the verbatim transcript, amended by Dr Cook’s corrections, deletions and supplements. Dr Cook found the OH process difficult andhe was not pleased with the initial result. While he made copious notes on the original transcript, he did […]
Retrospect – 50 Years since the 1924 Leprosy Survey [EN2/7]
DR. CECIL E.A. COOK. C.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M & H. Formerly Commissioner of Public Health, Western Australia (1946-1949) A talk to the Association of State Medical Officers, July 8, 1974: First let me thank you for affording me the opportunity to join you this evening in your farewell to Bill Davidson with whom it has […]
A letter to the West Kimberly Roads Board [EN2/14]
Roebourne W.A. August 1, 1924 Secretary, West Kimberley Roads Board Derby Dear Sir, To say that I am amazed at the contents of your letter dated July 25th 1924, is to understate the truth. May I call your attention to the exact phrasing of my letter – which I may state I had intended to […]
Leprosy Research Survey Route 1924
Through North-West Western Australia, April-August 1924 Stage 1: Derby to Halls Creek, via Fitzroy River visiting “Yeeda”, “Lower Liveringa”, “Udialla”, “Mt. Anderson”, “Upper Liveringa”, “Lulinga”, “Myroddah”, “Mt. Wynne”, “Noonkenbah”, “Quambon”, “Jubilee”, “Brooking Springs”, “Fitzroy Crossing”, “Gogo”, “Fossil Downs”, “Louisa Downs”, Margaret River”, “Lamboo”, “Moola Bulla”. Stage 2: Halls Creek to Wyndham, via Orde River visiting […]
Report on the proposed establishment of a Joint Lazaret at Darwin [EN2/25]
Cecil E. Cook M.B. Ch.M. D.T.M & H Wandsworth Scholar June 1925 Leprosy has been recorded in the Northern Territory since 1892, first in Chinese, and later in Aborigines from different localities. Until 1916 the practice appears to have been temporarily to isolate the former on improvised Quarantine grounds pending deportation to China, and to […]
Personal Letter to Jessie [EN2/30]
N.B. Don’t forget to get on the Electoral Roll Darwin 4/10/1925 My Darling Only one letter because up to the time I went into hospital – 23rd – I had not time or opportunity for writing, being on the road all the time but I will make this such a long one. After we left […]
Health – Northern Australia [EN 8/8]
Notes prepared by Dr Cook as a briefing paper for a conference in August 1950 following his general survey of June-July, 1950 It being no longer possible for Australia confidently to rely upon the successful exclusion of dangerous infections and disease vectors from overseas solely by practicable measures of Quarantine, attention must be directed towards […]
Health problems in Northern Australia [EN 8/4, 8/9, 8/13]
Report on a survey of health and social problems created by the maladjustment of the native population in North Queensland, Northern Territory and northern Western Australia*. *The survey occurred in June-July 1950 and Cook prepared this report in mid-1951 INTRODUCTORY: Although the functions and responsibilities of Health and Native Administration in Australia, except in Commonwealth […]
Northern Territory Medical Service – 1951
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, […]