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 […]
Tropical diseases in Northern Australia a history to 1962
A paper to an AMA conference in 1962 Tropical diseases in Northern Australia, individually and collectively, have been discussed by a number of authorities in much greater detail and far more ably than I can presume to attempt today, but I thought that in this year of my retirement, without too strict a definition of […]
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 […]