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| 1766 | Pitt the Elder, William |  |
| Not appointed Prime Minister due to poor health |
| 1788 | George IV |  |
| Suffers 1st bout of insanity |
| 1811 | George III |  |
| 5th Feb The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent |
| 11th Feb London Parliament can appoint the future George IV as Regent due to the health of George III |
| 1852 | Russell |  |
| London Founds the National Board of Public Health |
| 1901 | Victoria |  |
| 14th Jan Isle of Wight Victoria collapses at Osborne House |
| 1914 | George VI |  |
| Operated on for appendicitis |
| 1914 | Montgomery, Bernard Law |  |
| Wounded in action |
| 1917 | George VI |  |
| 30th Nov Operated on for a duodenal ulcer |
| 1923 | Chamberlain, Neville |  |
| 7th Mar Appointed Minister of Health, 1st term |
| 1924 | Chamberlain, Neville |  |
| Nov Appointed Minister of Health, 2nd term |
| 1924 | Greenwood, Arthur |  |
| Appointed Secretary to the Minister of Health |
| 1924 | Wheatley, John |  |
| Appointeed as the Minister of Health |
| 1928 | George VI |  |
| Incapacitated by illness & delegates Sovereign authority to Counsellors of State |
| 1929 | Greenwood, Arthur |  |
| Appointed Minister of Health |
| 1931 | Baldwin, Stanley |  |
| London Appointed Deputy Prime Minister to MacDonald due to the latter's poor health |
| 1931 | Chamberlain, Neville |  |
| Appointed Minister of Health, 3rd term |
| 1931 | Lloyd George, David |  |
| Cannot comeback due to prostrate problems & excluded from the National Government |
| 1934 | Baldwin, Stanley |  |
| 22nd June London Takes over most of Ramsey MacDonald's responsibilities due to the latter's poor health |
| 1935 | MacDonald, James Ramsey |  |
| 7th June London Resigns due to ill health |
| 1936 | George V |  |
| 15th Jan Begins an illness which ends in his death |
| 1936 | George VI |  |
| Incapacitated by illness & delegates Sovereign authority to Counsellors of State |
| 1941 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| Dec Churchill has a heart attack just after the USAenters the war, it is kept a secret |
| 1945 | Bevan, Aneurin |  |
| Appointed Minister of Health |
| 1945 | Bevan, Nye |  |
| Appointed Minister of Health |
| 1949 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| Churchill suffers from a major stroke |
| 1951 | George VI |  |
| London Has part of his left lung removed because of lung cancer |
| May London Prostrated by an attack of influenza, most official engagements are cancelled |
| 23rd Sep London Operated on at Buckingham Palace |
| 1952 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| Feb Churchill has a small arterial spasm |
| 1953 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 23rd June Spends the next 3 months in convalescence |
| 23rd June Suffers a stroke & for a few days his life is in the balance |
| 1955 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer |  |
| 5th April London Resigns due to ill health |
| 1956 | Eden, Robert Anthony |  |
| 12th Dec Eden goes to Jamaica for the sake of his health |
| 14th Dec Returns from Jamaica |
| 1956 | Heath, Edward Richard George |  |
| 12th Dec Eden goes to Jamaica for the sake of his health, Heath is left to manage the party |
| 1960 | Powell, John Enoch |  |
| Appointed Minister of Health |
| 1963 | MacMillan, Maurice Harold |  |
| Diagnosed with prostrate problems, causes his resignation |
| 1964 | Sellars, Peter |  |
| Sellers suffers a near-fatal heart attack, which permanently damaged his heart, Sellers' heart condition deteriorated over the following years when he deferred proper medical treatment, instead opting for "treatment" from psychic healers |
| 1968 | Barrett, Roger Keith "Syd" |  |
| Barrett suffers from mental instability, exacerbated by his use of LSD & his behavior becomes increasingly erratic & he lleaves the group |
| 1974 | Castle, Barbara |  |
| 5th Mar Appointed Minister of Health & Social Security |
| 1987 | Revie, Donald George "Don" |  |
| Revie reveals he is suffering from motor neurone disease |
| 1988 | Clarke, Kenneth |  |
| Appointed Secretary of Health |
| 1988 | Smith, John |  |
| Suffers from a heart attack |
| 1990 | Waldegrave, William |  |
| 30th Nov Appointed Minister of Health |
| 1992 | Bottomley, Virginia |  |
| 11th April Appointed Minister of Health |
| 1992 | Heseltine, Michael |  |
| May Venice Suffers from a heart attack |
| 1996 | Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton |  |
| The EC imposes sanctions on British beef |
| 1997 | Jowell, Tessa |  |
| Appointed Minister for Public Health |
| 1997 | Milburn, Alan |  |
| Appointed Minister of Health |
| Appointed Secretary of State for Health |
| 1998 | Harrison, George |  |
| George Harris on publicly discloses that he has been treated for throat cancer |
| 1999 | Harrison, George |  |
| Henley Attacked by an intruder at his mansion in Henley on Thames , Oxfordshire |
| Henley Stabbed several times & suffers a punctured lung |
| 2001 | Milburn, Alan |  |
| Appointed Secretary of State for Health |
| 2002 | Best, George |  |
| London Best has a liver transplant at King's College Hospital in London |
| 2003 | Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton |  |
| 19th Oct Blair given electric shocks to regulate heart palpitations in the first health scare of his premiership |
| 2003 | Heath, Edward Richard George |  |
| Aug Salzburg Heath suffers a pulmonary embolism, while on holiday in Salzburg, Austria |
| 2004 | Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton |  |
| 1st Oct Blair in hospital to correct heart palpitations |
| 2005 | Smith, Chris |  |
| 30th Jan States he has been HIV positive for 17 yrs |