
Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
Typhoid Is Not Our Thing, Dear.
The warren family, mister and missus warren, four children and five servants, were midsummer on long island. One of the daughters became desperately ill; before a conclusion could be reached, yet another daughter was struck down with the same symptoms. Everybody in the house recovered after a time, and they fled back to safety in new york city. The common sentiment was typhoid was a disease associated with dirt and crowding, and, frankly, poor people with their slovenly habits,. not the one % ly.
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