"ill-health" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 66, in The Way of All Flesh",
          "text": "Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable.",
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          "ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132",
          "text": "There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.",
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          "ref": "2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 35",
          "text": "\"We know the cost in terms of ill-health to the sector is hundreds of millions of pounds a year. A healthy person is a more productive person,\" says Prosser.",
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