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 […]
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 […]