Mary Mallon is far better known by the nickname she earned n the press when she infected multiple families that she worked for with typhoid fever. ‘Typhoid Mary’ was the name given to her by the media during her first forcible quarantine that lasted a period of 3 years. She had been working as a chef and had very low standards of hygiene, reportedly claiming she did not know why she needed to wash her hands as she was not ill. Mary was in fact an asymptomatic carrier of the typhus bacteria, meaning that while she appeared physically healthy she was spreading the deadly bacteria wherever she went.
After her first period of quarantine Mary was permitted to be released on the basis that she no longer work as chef and seek employment in a job that would not facilitate the spread of the disease. She agreed to this and managed to work as a laundress for several years, but eventually changed her name and returned to her previous occupation., Once again typhoid fever began to spread, but Mary continuously changed her name in order to avoid being apprehended by the authorities.
Mary was eventually tracked down when she started a severe outbreak of typhoid fever in Sloane Hospital for Women, where two people died as a result of the disease. Once she was apprehended she was sent to Riverside Hospital, where she would spend the rest of her life. On her death from pneumonia an autopsy was carried out and live typhoid bacteria was discovered in gallbladder.
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