The health problem created by the native population in the Northern Territory today differs in some respects from that confronted when the Northern Territory Medical Service was first established. These differences are due principally shifts in emphasis upon particular aspects of the problem, shifts which derive in part from the successes of the Service in […]
Northern Territory Medical Service – 1951
The Northern Territory Medical Service was established in 1928 to provide effectual machinery to control and eliminate endemic tropical disease from Northern Australia and to ensure that the area might be maintained as one suitable for permanent occupation by a healthy and prosperous white community. Fundamental to its organisation were two basic principles of policy, […]
Health Interest in Native Administration – 1953 [EN 8/67]
The future of successful settlement and development in Northern Australia is entirely dependent upon the control of certain tropical diseases endemic or likely to become endemic in the tropical environment. Prevailing environmental conditions will make the control of tropical disease difficult even in an enlightened white population. The existence of a substantial section of the […]
Current standards in the control of communicable diseases – 1954
The Director-General of Health Hygiene – Northern Territory In the course of my recent itinerary through the Northern Territory, I made a cursory enquiry into the current standards in the control of communicable diseases. The following observations are submitted to indicate desirable improvements in prophylactic routine. I should like, at the outset, to emphasise that […]
Health Problems of the Northern Territory
A paper read by Dr. C.E. Cook before the Australian Academy of Science, Brisbane, 25th May, 1956. In general, the health problems of the Northern Territory are those of the rest of northern Australia, but her they acquire special features owing to the unusual structure of the population. The problems themselves derive from: The tropical […]
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 […]