Ana Gonzalez
Typhoid Mary
To start describing an unfortunate life, I must state not everyone’s life is clarified to be fair, some have those lucky lives and others just have miserable life’s like Mary did. It all depends on what class you have been too represented. Mary Mallon was a born 1869 and was 37 years old when she was identified and reported to be one of the first humans with Typhoid. Typhoid fever is a disease transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person. Having this disease was not very usual if there was a cooker cooking for special families. It all started when Mary would cook for families in as a daily life routine. She would move from one family to the next one because after a while she cooked for them, someone in the family would end up getting super sick from the disease Typhoid Fever. No one from any family would have a clue why they were ending up getting sick, but they also did not care to look for the reason till one day George Soper wanted to find who the suspect of all this mess was. Three weeks after Mary Mallon had left the last family she worked for, Soper took on the case and straightly when to Mary Mallon as the number suspect of the crime. He noticed that in every family she worked for someone would end up having typhoid. After seeing her in person, but not actually meeting Mary, Soper did not really believe that Mary would be the cause of people’s health because she looked perfectly healthy and had healthy records with her doctors and surgeons. So he did not question her until he realized that not only family members of families she worked for getting sick, but general people like servants she fed were also receiving the disease and that is when Sopers light ball turned on. He realized that she did not have to show the symptoms to be a carrier. All she had to do is not wash her hands and cook unsanitary for others. George Soper went to Mary personally at her house asking if she had notice any symptoms or if she knew she had the disease Typhoid, but as normal human being, Mary responded in an angry mood that made her more luscious and mad because she also did not want to take a test identifying if she had the disease or not. Moreover, becoming a suspect not just for George, she also became one for the government which was society. Isolation became one of the options society took against Mary Mallon for being dangerous to the public. At this time Mary did not know what to do, but to help her out by finding a lawyer that would protect her. That is when Thomas Darling came in the picture at the age of 34 years old and worked on it for years even though they sadly did not win. Darling also died at the age of 39 of tuberculosis. When Mary and Thomas were attending court, the court would always argue she was a menace to the community so Thomas would state, how you know that if you guys don’t know if she has the disease. Explaining more, the court took action on this non-identified request to see if she was really infected or not. It comes up to be that Mary was infected by this disease, but was not showing the disease because she was a carrier. Thomas Darling argued that if they take in Mary, no cookers would be left in the world because they would have to be taking everyone of them in as well. The court took Mary Mallon to a prison as a prosper taking her own liberty on to the Quarantine Island in East River. Embarrass, no family wanted to get involved in any situation so it did not help Mary from getting isolated from the community. She was later set free with the condition of not ever cooking ever in her life, but was very impossible for Mary Mallon. Mary tried pretty much everything, but was not satisfied as her cooking for others. There she went again on cooking for families getting them sick and George came back to the picture stating that if Mary was smart enough to write a letter, she really did not need the help of others, but to help her realized she cannot cook for others, but Mary had disobeyed the law. In more words, George took on the case investigating her. Sadly, they took in Mary once again isolating her from everyone which was against the law because isolating was a big fresh topic in that time of era. Once Mary remained in prison, she started to get sick and started to feel lonely which made her sickness get worse. Mary was actually dying in prison, but still had the strength to support herself from anyone trying to "push her away from what she believed," like George did. He went to go visit her, but was not happy that Mary was trying to infect him with her disease. As her life came to an end, I noticed that her life was a sadden sorrow for the uneducated class because they did to really have a word against the world or did not have the same rights the court had believed in. Mary was one of the few or more like the only one who had this misfortunate life as a cooker because other people were also carriers, but were not identified till late, but did not live the lonely life as the sad Mary Mallon did.