This person first became wanted by the police in 1904 when working in a home in Oyster Bay, New York, eluding them until 1907, when she was committed to Riverside Hospital on New York's isolated North Brother Island.
This person first became wanted by the police in 1904 when working in a home in Oyster Bay, New York, eluding them until 1907, when she was committed to Riverside Hospital on New York's isolated North Brother Island. Released after promising not to take another job in food preparation, she was returned to Riverside after working as a cook in two hospitals. In all, she was believed to be responsible for 51 cases of a disease to which she was immune. FTP, who was this first known carrier of typhoid in the United States?
This person first became wanted by the police in 1904 when working in a home in Oyster Bay, New York, eluding them until 1907, when she was committed to Riverside Hospital on New York's isolated North Brother Island.
Typhoid Mary or Mary Mallon