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Typhoid Mary and the Public Health Dilemma of Living Carriers.
On November 11, 1938, Mary Mallon, the woman known to the papers and to all of history ever after as Typhoid Mary, passed away on North Brother Island, where she had been lodged by the New York City Department of Health for the previous 23 years to safeguard the general population from the disease which she carried. Her life’s course since 1907 had been entirely determined by the persistence in her body of an illness that, to her dying day, she insisted she never had, but whi
Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 28
Mother of the Telephone, Grandmother of Flight: Mabel Hubbard Bell.
We have been living without the menace of Scarlet Fever for a solid century now, and in that time it has devolved from a creature of...
Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 25, 2023
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