A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related ...

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MINISTERS OF HEALTH 1919 - 1968
1919 C Addison 1929 A Greenwood 1951 H Marquand
1921 Sir Alfred Mond 1931 N Chamberlain 1951 HFC Crookshank
1922 Sir Arthur Griffith- 1931 Sir E Hilton-Young 1952 I MacLeod
Boscawen 1935 Sir Kingsley Wood 1955 H Turton
1923 N Chamberlain 1938 W Eliott 1957 D Vosper
1923 Sir William Joynson- 1940 M MacDonald 1957 D Walker-Smith
Hicks 1941 E Brown 1960 E Powell
1924 J Wheatley 1943 H Willink 1963 A Barber
1924 N Chamberlain 1945 A Bevan 1964 K Robinson
SECRETARIES OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES 1968 - 1988
1968 R Crossman 1976 D Ennals 1987 J Moore
1970 Sir Keith Joseph 1979 P Jenkin
1974 B Castle 1981 N Fowler
SECRETARIES OF STATE FOR HEALTH 1988 - 1999
1988 K Clarke 1992 V Bottomley 1997 F Dobson
1990 W Waldegrave 1995 S Dorrell 1999 A Milburn
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICERS ENGLAND AND WALES (until 1969)
General Board of Health Sir John Simon 1855 - 1858
Privy Council Sir John Simon 1858 - 1871
Local Government Board:
1871 Sir John Simon 1880 Sir George Buchanan 1900 Sir William Power
1876 EC Seaton 1892 Sir Richard Thorne 1908 Sir Authur
Thorne Newsholme
Ministry of Health (Later Department of Health and Social Security, and the Department of
Health):
1919 Sir George Newman 1950 Sir John Charles 1984 Sir Donald Acheson
1935 Sir Arthur MacNalty 1960 Sir George Godber 1991 Sir Kenneth Calnan
1940 Sir Wilson Jameson 1973 Sir Henry Yellowlees 1998 Liam Donaldson