Salt Lake Herald | 1908-10-29 | Page 2 | Typhoid Germ Factory

I TYPHOID GERM FACTORY New York Woman Exudes Bacilla but Has Never Had the Fever New York Oct SS For 49 consecutive days physicians at the detention hospital In North Brother Island have hae examined Yar Mary Mallen in hopes that she might be found free tree from typhoid germs g On sev several se severa eral era occasions no germs have hare been found I but on the following day they have reap reappeared peered and on no two successive days das have they the been missing The physicians are puzzled pule but say there is I nothing to todo todo todo do but keep the woman in the hospital until sueh time us rs the germs disappear The woman was first heard of ot on Long Island where a sporadic outbreak of or ty phoM pho occurred It was traced to t her herbut herbut herbut but she got awa away and in another place obtained a position as cook The family developed typhoid and again she moved moed only to be the cause of oC another slight epi epidemic epidemic demic of or typhoid The woman has never shown any of ot the symptoms of ot the disease but for nearly a year eer and a half hair she has been thoroughly Infected with the germs Unless some method of driving bacilli from her system Is discovered Mary lal Mallens address for foran foran foran an indefinite period will be the detention hospital 4