Although Sober initially feared that the soft clams were the culprits, this proved to be incorrect as not all of those stricken had eaten them. From March , Sober started stalking Mary Mallon in Manhattan and he revealed that she was transmitting disease and death by her activity. Sober reconstituted the puzzle by discovering that previously the cook had served in 8 families. Seven of them had experienced cases of typhoid. Twenty-two people presented signs of infection and some died [ 5 , 6 ].
That year, about 3, New Yorkers had been infected by Salmonella typhi , and probably Mary was the main reason for the outbreak.
Immunization against Salmonella typhi was not developed until , and antibiotic treatment was not available until [ 4 ]. Thus, a dangerous source like Mary had to be restrained. Mary was then frequently accused of being the source of contact for hundreds of the ill. Sober, after enlisting the support of Dr. Biggs of the N. Department of Health, persuaded Dr. Josephine Baker, who along with the police, was sent to bring Mary Mallon in for testing.
Baker and the police were met by an uncooperative Mary, who eluded them for five hours. At the end she was forced to give samples. In , Mary unsuccessfully sued the health department. In , a new health commissioner vowed to free Mary and assist her with finding suitable employment as a domestic but not as a cook.
Mary was released but never intended to abide by the agreement. She started working again in the cuisines of her unsuspecting employers, threatening public health once more [ 4 ]. As a cook of Sloane Maternity in Manhattan, she contaminated, in three months, at least 25 people, doctors, nurses and staff. Two of them died. Mary was placed back on North Brother Island where she remained until her death. On Christmas morning, , a man who came to deliver something to her found Mary on the floor of her bungalow, paralyzed.
She had had a stroke of apoplexy and never walked again. She died in November Her body was hurried away and buried in a grave bought for the purpose at St. Setting Primary Image. Bulla Cemetery Cemetery Rd. Bulla, , Victoria. Nearby Graves. Find more about Mary We found more records about Mary Mallon. Relationships on the headstone add. Arthur Mallon. Not Available - 21 Jul Eliza Jane Mallon.
Not Available - 22 Apr She had worked for several years with a family in Westchester County, New York, disappearing after a guest became ill with typhoid in Later that same year, she was hired into a family in Manhattan where a fellow worker contracted the disease a few weeks after she arrived, although Mallon was never suspected as a connection.
Over the next decade, she worked at eight different households, Soper discovered. Seven of these households experienced typhoid outbreaks. In most cases, as soon as the disease struck, Mallon quit and disappeared. In , Soper was asked to investigate an eruption of typhoid at a summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. That summer, six of the eleven members of the household had taken ill three weeks after the arrival of the family's new cook. After searching for sources of contamination like spoiled food or contaminated water, Soper began to suspect a human carrier, and learned that the cook had disappeared.
He tracked Mallon through her employment agency, and finally located her in the New York home of her current employer. Soper assumed that Mallon had no idea she was the cause of the repeated outbreaks and would be happy to find out how to guard against future tragedies.
Science and humanitarian considerations made it necessary to clear up the whole matter. Apparently, Mallon did not agree. Reason, at least in the forms in which I was acquainted with it, proved unavailing.
I never felt more helpless. Soper planned a raid, enlisting a colleague to help stake out a tenement house where Mallon often visited a male friend. When Soper finally confronted Mallon in hopes of gaining her cooperation, he met with complete denial.
We concluded that it would be hopeless to try again. Unable to gain Mallon's consent to be examined, Soper turned the case over to the New York City Department of Health, recommending that the department arrest her in order to subject her to a bacteriological examination.
In March , the Health Department sent a team, including inspector Dr. Only notify me of service opportunities in my area and educational emails. Use your facebook account to register with BillionGraves. It will be one less password to remember. You can always add an email and password later. Mary Mallon is buried in the West Woodville Cemetery at the location displayed on the map below.
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