NOTED TYPHOID CARRIER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 318, 18 June 1915, Page 6

NOTED TYPHOID CARRIER.

NEW V(il:K (liiiK. New York. April n. ..iu.-h va-. snhl in inedh-n! ami s:ini•in Aim-i-K'iHi woman known as --Typhoid J litis," because .--he was a uotiil cirri", ~i" Uphold bacilli, or -itims, nod I: ol • been' Hi,. (Mnsr ol' :-cv. nil rphh-uirs e, ' llir disease. She i.-. now again :,cfo,e| tin- public, and in her <>l<i role, having caused an epidemic, in the Sloano Maternity llos|i'itul here, wiii'i-c, under an assumed name, she had: obtain,',l employment as iMi.ik. It was in li! 07 that 'Jr. Sopor, a sanitary engineer, making cn•.jiiirv as to the' cans,, of six cases of typhoid in flu' family of a wealthy resident in a town near New York, trac. d the history of Alan" Million, t lit- lum.so. hold I'ook', and asi-ertainod that there had bia-n cases of typhoid in every honsii where she hair been employed during the past tin years.. The woman herself was iininmie, but she was constantly a eari rier of tile »vniis, a kind of "liiitimit filltnre tube.'"

For three years she was confined in one of ttto city institutions on an island hi- the harbor. Then she was released' upon parole, with tHe "under-Klamfi-iift that she would frequently report to the Health Department, and H-oitW not seek or accept , inploynieni as a cook. After workin" for a time as a laundress, she disappeared. This was two years ago. The number of persons in the Hloane Hospital—docto.-s, nurses, and patients—was 2SI. V.ln'-;i an investigation was made, in January last, as to the cause of 2o cases of typhoid, the hospital cook ran away. She waa captured, and then it became known that she was the inissin- ''Typhoid Mary." Dr. Suptr, who ha-s done much "ood work in connection with typhoid epidemics, asserts that there are many carriers. In our city bacteriological laboratory the physicians are now subjecthiji five such persons to experiment, and they liope to find a cure. I recall an epidemic in the St'ite of Xc-w Jersey, which was traced to a carrier enipoly.d on a dairy farm, from which many families obtained milk. The health authorities say that "Typhoid Mary" carries germs of exceptional virulence, and that this accounts for the fact that .'-even of those attacked in the Sloane Hospital were not protected bj- the immunisation treatment to which they had been subjected. Dr. Super's advice to families and the public is "Look up the history if'your cooks."