ABORIGINALS These notes from NAA file (A452 A1 1938/31785) are suggestions Professor Elkin made to the Department of the Interior’s Secretary, J. A. Carrodus, who made corrections and inserted suggestions to create the version sent to the N.T. Administrator, C.L.A. Abbott. The following scheme to implement the Commonwealth Government’s policy in connection with the welfare […]
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Dr Cook’s personal comments on the Minister’s proposed policy [EN 5/69]
CONFIDENTIAL His Honour, The Administrator I find it very difficult to comment dispassionately upon the proposed aboriginal policy forwarded with your memorandum of the 14th instant. So many entirely personal factors are involved in the proposed changes that I am afraid my commentary, so far from appearing to be the well-considered judgement of an experienced official […]
Dr Cook’s professional comments on the Minister’s proposed policy [EN 5/70]
CONFIDENTIAL His Honour, The Administrator In accordance with the instruction contained in your memorandum of 14th April, 1938, I submit herewith my comments on the proposed aboriginal policy outlined by the Minister and forwarded under cover of the Secretary’s confidential memorandum of 11th instant. At the outset I wish to state that the second paragraph of […]
The Social Status of Aborigines [EN 5/72]
The Sun (Sydney, NSW) Monday 15 August 1938p2 CIVIC RIGHTS FOR BLACKS: MINISTER’S PLAN TO UPLIFT STATUSTraining In Station Trades as QualificationFrom Our Special Representative with Federal Ministerial party visiting, Northern Territory. Full citizen rights will be held out to individual aborigines as an incentive to them to improve their social status, said the Minister […]
Statement by the Minister on the N.T Medical Service
NORTHERN TERRITORY MEDICAL SERVICEDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR As a result of my investigations, I have come to the conclusion that it is highly desirable that there should be a change in the control of the Medical Service of the Northern Territory. The present Chief Medical Officer, although efficient and very keen on his work, has […]
Transfer of the N.T. Medical Service to the Commonwealth [EN 5/64]
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIADEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,CANBERRA, A.C.T. 12th December 1938 MEMORANDUM: His Honour, The Administrator of the Northern Territory,DARWIN. NORTHERN TERRITORY MEDICAL SERVICE. The Government have decided – That the Northern Territory Medical Service be made a branch of the Commonwealth Department of Health and be controlled by the Director-General of Health; That the Officer in […]
Dr Cook comments on his removal from the N.T. Medical Service
CONFIDENTIAL His Honour The Administrator,DARWIN. N.T. NORTHERN TERRITORY MEDICAL SERVICE With reference to the final paragraph of the Department’s memorandum of the 12th December 1938, I have to advise that this can only be construed as my ignominious dismissal from the Northern Territory Medical Service. Having regard to: my having given the best years of […]
Hygiene Report of South Western Ceylon
12-A.G.H., A.I.F.,WELISARA.14.3.42 MEMO:C.O. 12- A.G.H. Herewith is furnished a summary of the salient sanitary features of the area included in the 25-mile wide band extending from Colombo to Matara. It is to be borne in mind that ,whilst the statement is believed to be as complete as it consistent with brevity, certain insuperable difficulties associated with […]
Letter to Robin about courage [EN 6/23]
UNIT: 12 A.G.H – A.I.F. Abroad 2 Sept 1942 Dear Robin, Many thanks for all your letters. I look forward so much to getting them that be sure and write me lots. I’m sorry you got such a fright Darling, but when it was all over it was not so bad after all, was it? […]
Report on Scrub Typhus outbreak 1943 [EN 6/38, 39]
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 […]
Notes on Japan for Hygiene Officers [EN 6/61]
11 Sep 45 JAPAN consists of four main islands – HOKKAIDO, HONSHU, KYUSHU and SHIKOKU sub-divided into 47 administrative districts. Of these, 43 are prefectures (ken), 3 are the urban districts of TOKYO, KYOTO and OSAKA, and one, the island of HOKKAIDO. The islands carry a population of 73,140,308. HOUSING: In the larger cities, particularly […]
Supplement to Notes on Japan for Hygiene Officers [EN 6/61]
DDGMS ADVANCED HEADQUARTERSAUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES INTRODUCTORY This report is intended to supplement and to add to “NOTES ON JAPAN FOR HYGIENE OFFICERS” which should be read in conjunction with it, since matter previously included has, to avoid repetition, not been duplicated here. As no decision has yet been reached upon the parts of JAPAN likely […]
Application for Employment in Western Australia [EN 7/1]
APPLICATION OFLT. COL. C.E. COOK, CBE, MD, DPH, DTM & H, AAMC FOR THE POSITION OFCOMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEALTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 13 Feb 45. Public Service Commissioner,PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA Application is hereby made for appointment to the position of Commissioner of Public Health, Western Australia. A.D.H. is the Representative of the Director of Hygiene A.M.F. […]
Letter questioning terms of appointment in Western Australia [EN 7/5]
PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL Hon. A.H. Panton, Minister for Health, PERTH. Dear Sir, Since making my application for appointment as Commissioner of Health, Western Australia, in response to an inadequate summary of conditions circulated through AAMC channels, my attention has been drawn to certain alleged misunderstandings between yourself and my predecessor. The points at issue, I […]
Letter tendering Resignation – 1946 [EN 7/10]
2nd October 1946 THE HON. THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH: The Under Secretary and I hold irreconcilable views upon the relative status of the offices of Under Secretary and Commissioner of Public Health. In my view there is no room for an Under Secretary in the Public Health Department. The Commissioner is charged with certain […]
Report on the Nursing Situation – 1947 [EN 7/13]
THE HON. MINISTER FOR HEALTHGovernment Hospitals Omitting Wooroloo, now staffed independently, Government hospitals are 41 trained nurses short and 52 trainees short. As a set-off to the deficiency of trainees, an additional 84 nursing assistants have been appointed, effecting an excess in untrained staff of 32. The Government is giving close attention to the provision […]
Administrative Inadequacy [EN 7/23]
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 […]
Population Trends in Relation to Health Administration [EN 7/61]
THE HON. MINISTER FOR HEALTH: Attached is an important report and recommendation by the Commissioner of Public Health, which is recommended for your favourable consideration. A laboratory such as that suggested seems to be an essential part of an important hospital, and the conclusions which might be reached following the research indicated, might prove to […]