Reprinted from The Medical Journal of Australia, April 30, 1949, page 569, read at a meeting of the Section of Public Health, Tuberculosis and tropical Medicine, Australasian Medical Congress (British Medical Association) Sixth Session, Perth, August 1948 By C.E. Cook, M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M. and H.,Commissioner of Public Health, Western Australia The importance of the Australian […]
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 […]