![]() ![]() Having several strikes against her because not only was she a poor immigrant woman but also she had no family, was not married and had in fact lived with Alfred Bierhof,a man she was not married to, for almost two decades, Mary was sure she was being targeted unfairly especially as others like her were not treated so harshly and allowed to remain with their families even. Incredulous at being blamed as she had never even been exposed to the sickness herself, Mary refused to comply with his orders to quietly leave and thus began a battle that lasted the rest of her life.Īn unfortunate example of a ‘healthy carrier’ which meant she could pass on the disease by just touching the food people ate, Mary was isolated to North Brother Island in the midst of her protests that she was not responsible and her refusal to do as the state deemed fit. ![]() The life Mary had made for herself was forever shattered when one morning Dr George Soper,a sanitation engineer with the Department of health, arrived at her workplace and implicated her as the source of the deadly typhoid fever which had by then affected more than twenty people she had cooked for. ![]()
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