AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES H.Q. 2 Aust Corps18 August, 1943 DDMS 2 Aust CorpsD of H LHQADMS 9 Aust DivADMS 6 Aust DivDADMS 17 (Cairns) L of C Sub Area SCRUB TYPHUS – 24 AUST. BRIGADE Throughout its jungle training period on Atherton Tableland from mid April to mid June, 1943, no case of Scrub Typhus […]
Personal letter re 1944 outbreak of Scrub Typhus
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES Headquarters,NEW GUINEA Force16 Apr 44 Dear Bob, We seem to have got into quite a profitable and mutually instructive discussion. I myself think it fine and am learning lots going out in new fields to try and outflank you. Would like to keep it up but sensed I thought, a little acrimony […]
Hygiene Report on Morotai Island [EN 6/51, 53]
DGMS Adv LHQ SUBJECT: STAGING AREA 2 – ADV LHQ SITEPRELIMINARY HYGIENE REPORT DDMS Adv LHQ Staging Area 2 AD of H Adv LHQ inspected this site 23 Feb 1945 TERRAIN: Low lying coral sand flats cultivated with coconuts. Flanked by sea on two sides – coral bottomed MOROTAI strait side, sandy beach HALMHERAS sea-side. […]
Disposal of Burned Cans [EN 6/51, 53]
DGMS Adv LHQ Staging Area 2 It is urgently recommended that the policy of setting aside Brigade or equivalent camp dumps for the burial of burned and crushed cans be reconsidered. It is further recommended that this proposed method of disposal be abandoned in favour of that adopted by 1 Aust Corps after ample field […]
Health in Tropical Australia – 1950 [EN 8/3]
The following represents a synopsis of a lengthy report upon health administration and associated problems in Northern Australia. Statements made positively in this synopsis without discussion or qualification can be supported by reference to the more detailed report. The situation confronting the Commonwealth in tropical Australia may be outlined as follows: Three factors which have […]
Tropical Disease and the Australian Native [EN 8/5, 6]
by C.E. Cook, M.D., Ch.M., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H A paper delivered at the Commonwealth Conference of the BMA, Brisbane, May 1950 The region with which this study is concerned includes roughly that portion of Australia lying north of the 19th parallel of South Latitude and embracing the Peninsula and Carpentaria Divisions of Queensland, the […]
Health – Northern Australia [EN 8/8]
Notes prepared by Dr Cook as a briefing paper for a conference in August 1950 following his general survey of June-July, 1950 It being no longer possible for Australia confidently to rely upon the successful exclusion of dangerous infections and disease vectors from overseas solely by practicable measures of Quarantine, attention must be directed towards […]
The Native Problem Why Is It Unsolved?
Lieut.-Col. C.E.A. Cook, C.B.E. M.D., etc. of Commonwealth Department of Public Health, Canberra; Chief Medical Officer and Chief Protector of Aborigines, Northern Territory, 1927 – 1939. Published in Australian Quarterly December 1950 “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” Herbert Spencer. From time to […]
Health and Native Administration – 1952-3
INTRODUCTION: Several factors contribute to the complexity of the problem of providing an adequate health and medical service in Northern Australia: The environment favours the endemicity of the major tropical disease. A large component of the population is of native race living at a very low standard of sanitation under conditions likely to contribute to […]
The Native Health Problem Today – 1955 [EN 8/54]
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 […]