Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon was an immigrant woman who came from Irish to the United States in 1886 to get a job and make her life better. She worked with a rich family as a cook in their house. She was a strong women work very hard, she never experience any health problem, but she didn’t know that she may carry a typhoid illness and made people sick and die because of her. In this period of time the science had not been developed enough yet so she was treated very bad and unfair. Till that time Mary was a victim because she had been judged about something that she didn’t do it intentionally, but after she decided to return to cooking, even that she knows about her disease, Mary Mallon became villain more than victim.
Mary believed that she …show more content…
After they hire Sober and he work hard to find the source of this sickness, he find out that the family had a cooker that she may carry the bacteria, so he look for her to warn her about the typhoid, but why would she believe this? She didn’t understand the cause of disease, nobody believes the assumption that typhoid was spread by lack of hygiene. Therefore, when police officers came to arrest her and put her in quarantine without trial, she really did not know what was happening to her and …show more content…
The way they treat her was like insult to her. The scientists got their result that Mary is the carrier of typhoid, and she is a healthy carriers, she was healthy and yet carried the disease, she did not get sick because her immune system had beaten the bacteria. After that they released her with a promise that she shouldn’t work as a cooker again, she been surveilled by the health department, but they lost truck on her in 1915, by that time health department get a serious problem again about typhoid. And soon enough they find out that Mary broke her promise and went back to cooking at a hospital with a fake name, as a result many people in the hospital where she worked became sick and died, after multiple tests on her they proved she carried it. But Mary still has been thinking that it could not be true. And Mary still thinking about this till she passed away.
Mary Mallon, as a healthy carrier of typhoid disease, Mallon was blamed due to her social class, her ethnicity, and her gender. Why did the NY Public Health Department isolated Mary and not the other people who had also healthy carriers? the same case as millions of people who are HIV positive and drug-resistant tuberculosis, "Typhoid Mary" is a great example of the age-old dilemma of individual liberty vs public safety, also is an uneasy reminder
Mary Mallon was an immigrant woman who came from Irish to the United States in 1886 to get a job and make her life better. She worked with a rich family as a cook in their house. She was a strong women work very hard, she never experience any health problem, but she didn’t know that she may carry a typhoid illness and made people sick and die because of her. In this period of time the science had not been developed enough yet so she was treated very bad and unfair. Till that time Mary was a victim because she had been judged about something that she didn’t do it intentionally, but after she decided to return to cooking, even that she knows about her disease, Mary Mallon became villain more than victim.
Mary believed that she …show more content…
After they hire Sober and he work hard to find the source of this sickness, he find out that the family had a cooker that she may carry the bacteria, so he look for her to warn her about the typhoid, but why would she believe this? She didn’t understand the cause of disease, nobody believes the assumption that typhoid was spread by lack of hygiene. Therefore, when police officers came to arrest her and put her in quarantine without trial, she really did not know what was happening to her and …show more content…
The way they treat her was like insult to her. The scientists got their result that Mary is the carrier of typhoid, and she is a healthy carriers, she was healthy and yet carried the disease, she did not get sick because her immune system had beaten the bacteria. After that they released her with a promise that she shouldn’t work as a cooker again, she been surveilled by the health department, but they lost truck on her in 1915, by that time health department get a serious problem again about typhoid. And soon enough they find out that Mary broke her promise and went back to cooking at a hospital with a fake name, as a result many people in the hospital where she worked became sick and died, after multiple tests on her they proved she carried it. But Mary still has been thinking that it could not be true. And Mary still thinking about this till she passed away.
Mary Mallon, as a healthy carrier of typhoid disease, Mallon was blamed due to her social class, her ethnicity, and her gender. Why did the NY Public Health Department isolated Mary and not the other people who had also healthy carriers? the same case as millions of people who are HIV positive and drug-resistant tuberculosis, "Typhoid Mary" is a great example of the age-old dilemma of individual liberty vs public safety, also is an uneasy reminder