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Show I A TYPHOID GERM FACTORY. Woman Exudes Bacilla, But Has Never1 Had the Fever. Now York. For 450 consooutlvn days physicians at the detention hos- Hal in North Ilrolher Island have ex-(imlned ex-(imlned Mary Mallen In hopes that fiho might bo found free from typhoid germs. On .several occasions no germs have been .found, but on the inllowing ilny they have reappeared, nnd on no two successive days havo thoy been missing. Tho physicians nro puzzled, but say there Is nothing to do but keep tho woman in the hospital hos-pital until such tlmo ns tho germs disappear. The woman was first heard of on Long Island, where a sporadic, outbreak of typhoid occurred. It was traced to her, but sho got away and in another place obtained u position is cook. The family developed typhoid ty-phoid and again sho moved, only to be tho cause of another slight opi demlc of typhoid. Tho woman has never shown any of the symptoms ol I tho disease, but for nearly a year nnd n half she has boon thoroughly Infected Infect-ed with tho gonna. Unless somo method of driving bacilla from her lystein Is discovered Mnry Mallcn'a address for an indefinite period will be tho detention hospltnl. |