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 […]
Leprosy Scourge Let Loose
In the Western Australian Truth, THE PEOPLE’S PAPER Saturday July 5, 1924 Panic Conditions in Derby Lepers Mingling With Townsfolk and Spreading the Disease From the far North comes a cry which so far seems to have failed to impress itself upon metropolitan ears. Things seem to be in a parlous state at Derby and […]
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 […]