Mary Mallon

Mary Mallon, known as “Typhoid Mary,” was an Irish maid in New York from the early 1900s, and was known for spreading Typhoid. At the time, Mary was a cook and a typhoid carrier, and with that she exposed many people to typhoid, by “shedding” typhoid and infecting others, as she handled and prepared food (Leavitt, 2004). Mary was just going about her daily business, and didn't know at first that she even was a carrier of Typhoid. I feel Mary was treated horribly, by isolating her on an island, and labeling her a monster and a freak (Leavitt, 2004). Mary should have been having stool specimens tested, and could have returned to work after three negative cultures(NYSDOH, 2014, p. 1). People don't have to be isolated, unless they are having uncontrollable diarrhea (NYSDOH, 2014, p. 1). Hand washing is a huge MUST to help stop the spread of typhoid.…

Mary Mallon is a Villain because she didn’t wash her hands, she became a cook again when she wasn’t supposed to be a cook, and she infected many families and even people who worked at a hospital. In the article it says that Mary Mallon never washed her hands and she even admitted that she didn’t wash her hands because she thought she saw no need to do so. This proves Mary Mallon is a villain because by not washing her hands, she infected many people with Typhoid. By having a bad hygiene Mary…

Typhoid Fever You have no doubt heard about the notorious case of Typhoid Mary. Mary Mallon, more commonly known by the title of Typhoid Mary, was a cook who resided in New York City who was responsible for unwittingly infecting nearly 53 people with typhoid and causing 3 deaths as a result. Despite being prohibited from continuing to work as a cook, she took up a new identity to continue working. This led to another typhoid outbreak that led to her being forced into quarantine for nearly 30…

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…

At the time there was no evidence that someone could be a “healthy carrier” of a disease. Mallon’s case would set a precedent for the detention of person who harbors an infectious disease yet shows no symptoms. Mary would find herself released of detention with a single stipulation: that she would not work as a cook ever again. However, feeling health, she violated this rule and found herself in court yet again. Mary Mallon would go down in history under the name Typhoid Mary. More…

doesn't directly mention Mary Mallon, it highlights very important medical scenarios that apply to Mary's case. Some of the rights that were highlighted include treating those who are sick and confidentiality. The case of confidentiality can definitely be associated to Mary as her typhoid case ended up being plastered over many note-worthy newspapers. Furthermore, the article highlights the relation between politics and public health, suggesting how the connection between the both is profound.…

They all had one thing in common, their cook, Mary Mallon. George Soper, the disease specialist with the families didn’t think Mary was the source of the illnesses because when food is cooked the bacteria is killed off. Mary’s specialty was peach melba, a dessert that contains raw peaches. Mary refused to give the doctors any samples of her DNA since she believed she was not sick. S. Josephine Baker was able to restrain Mary by sitting on her. According to Baker, “It was like being in a cage…

It is difficult to decide where the rights of one citizen stop, and the rights of all other citizens begin. In the case of Mary Mallon, health care officials placed the greater good of the population above the rights of an individual, for the right reasons. However, officials at the New York City Health Department went about it in the wrong way. I do not think Mary should have been kept in isolation for the rest of her life. However, I do believe she was given a fair chance at a normal life…

In 1906 Mary Mallon was employed as a cook for a wealthy banker that resided in New York. Six out of 11 residents in the banker’s household developed typhoid fever. As a result of this, a sanitary engineer known as George Sober, quickly questioned the ill group of people, including Mary Mallon who had exhibited a less intense form of the disease. Mr. Sober first concluded that the infection was the result from freshwater clams; however, Mary Mallon was the host for the bacteria. She continued to…

Mary is represented as icons, drawings, paintings, and apparitions, such as La Santa Muerte, La Negrita, Our Lady of the Rock, Madonna, The Virgin of Guadalupe, and Our Lady of the Wall. With there still being many more, all of this just undoubtedly proves how incredibly substantial her influence is. It is completely reasonable to believe in Mary’s influence because “to look at [her]…is to look at God’s original plan for humanity” (Nouwen, 1989), as mentioned in class: she is the ultimate…