To the Hon. the Minister for Health: The report on the Department of Public Health for the year 1948:- ADMINISTRATION: Administrative Inadequacy One cannot escape the conclusion that effective health administration is seriously impeded and the extension of activity into new fields largely frustrated by the out-moded and irrationally devised establishment of the Department. In […]
Memo regarding Resignation – 1948 [EN 7/114-117]
THE HON. THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH: Adverting to our conversation of this morning at which I informed you of my intention to resign from the offices of Commissioner of Public Health and Principal Medical Officer, I should be glad if you will peruse the attached correspondence which will explain my attitude. My reasons are clearly […]
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 General Practitioner and Public Health Administration [EN 9/23]
A paper by Dr Cook, read at a meeting of the Federation of Country Local Associations, New South Wales Branch, British Medical Association, Canberra, April 20, 1954; Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, November 13, 1954, page 769. The purpose of my talk today is twofold: first, to invite your attention to the importance, […]
Preventive Medicine
The Director-General With the development of the National Health Service the Commonwealth must expect to be confronted by annually increasing costs arising from the incentive of the insured subject to secure each year maximum value for his contribution and from the liberality of the medical profession – now relieved of any obligation to consider the […]
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 […]