THE HON. MINISTER FOR HEALTHGovernment Hospitals Omitting Wooroloo, now staffed independently, Government hospitals are 41 trained nurses short and 52 trainees short. As a set-off to the deficiency of trainees, an additional 84 nursing assistants have been appointed, effecting an excess in untrained staff of 32. The Government is giving close attention to the provision […]
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 […]
Public Health – Co-ordination by Commonwealth
THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: The concentration of revenue collection in the Commonwealth Treasury under the Commonwealth/States Financial Agreement Act imposed upon the Commonwealth an implicit responsibility for the allocation of funds to the States, for, amongst other purposes health administration. Simultaneously, expansion of State and Local Authority Health activity calls for progressively greater annual expenditure, the funds […]
The inaugural Elkington Oration
by Dr C.E. Cook, C.B.E. 4th August, 1958. Your meeting tonight has been made the opportunity to inaugurate the Elkington Oration which your Queensland Society of Health intends shall become an annual occasion to honour the memory of John Simeon Colebrook Elkington and to commemorate his outstanding service to Public Health and Preventive Medicine in […]
Notable changes in the incidence of disease in Northern Territory Aborigines
by C.E. COOK (1963) Abstract Few of the diseases which in the past century have scourged the native population of the Northern Territory were indigenous. Exotic infections introduced into areas where native society was intact disappeared under the inhibitory conditions created by the environment and native habit. Only when natives were concentrated into settlements without […]