Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

Even before he saw the necessity of growing better food and planning good nutrition, Mr. Clark felt the school had a good health program.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

For example, one study on volunteerism found that feeling overwhelmed by others ' demands had an even stronger negative effect on mental health than helping had a positive one ( although positive effects were still significant ).

Nevertheless, the king whose health was failing, wanted to secure the ascension of his young son, Ladislaus, who had been crowned on 26 August 1204.

On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

Furthermore, of critical importance to health care professionals, the preliminary results indicated that patients in the coppered ICU rooms had a 40. 4 % lower risk of contracting a hospital acquired infection versus patients in non-coppered ICU rooms.

Derby's health had been declining for some time and he finally resigned as Prime Minister in late February 1868 ; he would live for twenty months.

This was in part due to the sudden switching of troops from the Rhine to reinforce Prince Eugene in Italy, and part due to the deterioration of Baden ’ s health brought on by the re-opening of a severe foot wound he had received at the storming of the Schellenberg the previous year.

Pascal had poor health especially after his eighteenth year and his death came just two months after his 39th birthday.

For example in the case of anthrax, it is likely that by 24 – 36 hours after an attack, some small percentage of individuals ( those with compromised immune system or who had received a large dose of the organism due to proximity to the release point ) will become ill with classical symptoms and signs ( including a virtually unique chest X-ray finding, often recognized by public health officials if they receive timely reports ).

“ They may produce global epidemics and impair the health of future generations .” He then stated that, in recognition of these dangers, the United States had decided to destroy its entire stockpile of biological agents and confine its future biological research program to defensive measures, such as vaccines and field detectors.

Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

Although the shooter's motives remain unknown, relatives of the shooter had expressed concerns about his mental health.

But Andropov's ability to reshape the top leadership was constrained by his poor health and the influence of his rival ( and longtime ally of Leonid Brezhnev ) Konstantin Chernenko, who had previously supervised personnel matters in the Central Committee.

Cholera became the first reportable disease in the United States due to the significant effects it had on health.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

His elder brother Henry, who had been in ill health in part due to problems with alcoholism, died on August 1, 1831.

His drinking and poor health reinforced his fears, as he wrote in the third person, " Ever since he was a child he had hated marriage.

Emily's health, like her sisters ', had been weakened by unsanitary conditions at home, the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's graveyard.

From 1912 Florence's health deteriorated due to a lung abscess, and a resulting depression.

There were thoughts of going to India to work on the Pioneer, a newspaper in Lucknow, but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated.

Stalin's health deteriorated towards the end of World War II.

During the summer, his doctors sent him to Kislovodsk for the mineral spas, but on the day of his arrival at the resort Chernenko's health deteriorated, and he contracted pneumonia.

From the East-West Gathering onward, Baba's health steadily deteriorated.

As the health of the Spanish leader Francisco Franco deteriorated, the Madrid government slipped into disarray, and sought a way out of the Sahara conflict.

In late 1842, Jardine's health had rapidly deteriorated possibly from pulmonary oedima.

Nuvolari never formally announced his retirement, but his health had deteriorated and he became increasingly solitary.

Her health gradually deteriorated in the final two decades of her life ; a heavy smoker all her adult life, she had a lung operation in 1985, a bout of pneumonia in 1993, and at least three strokes between 1998 and 2001.

" That summer his health suddenly deteriorated, including jaundice and significant weight loss.

His health deteriorated on the way, and Ewelina wrote to her daughter about Balzac being " in a state of extreme weakness " and " sweating profusely ".

Porter was a heavy drinker, and his health deteriorated markedly in 1908, which affected his writing.

Wright contracted Amoebic dysentery on a visit to Africa in 1957, and despite various treatments, his health deteriorated over the next three years.

He began to have trouble sleeping almost immediately after his 40th birthday in 1991 ; following these first signs of insomnia, his health and state of mind quickly deteriorated as his condition worsened.

In March 1771 Mendelssohn's health deteriorated so badly that Marcus Elieser Bloch, his doctor, decided his patient had to give up philosophy, at least temporarily.

Shortly after his return from Australia, his health deteriorated.

Marie-Antoinette's health rapidly deteriorated in the following months.

After the war, her husband's health deteriorated and she was widowed at the age of 51.

Princess Elizabeth, the heiress presumptive, took on more royal duties as her father's health deteriorated.

By the winter of 1542, Lord Latimer's health had deteriorated.

So exhausting was the effort to score the ballet that Ravel's health deteriorated, with a diagnosis of neurasthenia soon forcing him to rest for several months.

The sudden death of their father on 5 September 1912 brought Douglas and his brother Arthur back to Milwaukee to care for their mother, whose health had deteriorated.

Shortly before he was due to leave for the Crimea, Andropov's health severely deteriorated.

His health, never good, deteriorated rapidly toward the end of 1744 ; Lord Orford died in London in 1745, aged nearly sixty-nine years ; he was buried in his home estate of Houghton.