Title: Mary Mallon Description: Mary Mallon (AKA: Typhoid Mary; 1869-1938), American domestic servant and cook, who was notorious as a carrier of typhoid and who reportedly infected fifty-three persons with the disease, three of whom dying; she staunchly denied having spread the disease and also refused to cease her work as a cook, which caused her to be forcibly quarantined twice by public health authorities (she died in quarantine); Mallon was allegedly born with the disease as her mother had typhoid fever during her pregnancy Category: Authors Keywords: disease carriers, diseases, typhoid Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2325 x 2264 (5.26 MPixels) (1.03) Print Size: 19.7 x 19.2 cm; 7.8 x 7.5 inches File Size: 15.08 MB (15,809,738 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000056025 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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