THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: The control and prevention of disease other than quarantinable disease and the provision of hospital and ancillary services for the people have traditionally been the responsibility of State Departments. As at present constituted these are largely the unplanned growth of bodies originally formed to control morbidity and mortality during the last century following […]
A proposal for the National Health and Medical Research Council [EN 9/17]
The Director-General The Royal Commission on Health 1925 recorded a number of comments and conclusions pertinent to the current discussions on a proposed Medical Council and the complex problems of the relation of such a Council to the N.H. & M.R.C. Available material on the subject of morbidity now not used might be made available. […]
NHMRC Poliomyelitis Committee report Feb 1952
NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL POLIOMYELYTIS COMMITTEE The Committee met in Adelaide at 2pm, Monday February 4th 1952, the Sessions closing at 5pm Friday 8th February NOTE: This abbreviated report of the NHMRC Poliomyelitis Committee’s first meeting, is to present its Scope of Study and Responsibility. As Chairman, Dr Cook took a strong stand […]
The Medical Practitioner and Preventive Medicine – 1954
A submission to the NHMRC Public Health Committee by Dr C.E. Cook The Committee is asked to consider and pronounce upon the following propositions:- There is a wide and important field of preventive medicine beyond the sphere of conventional health administration as applied under Public Health legislation in Australia. In this field measures of control […]