This Day in History: 1915-03-27

Typhoid Mary   (Mary Mallon) is ordered by New York courts into permanent quarantine on this day in 1915 after knowingly exposing 51 people, and killing 3,  through her job as a cook.  Although she was a typhoid carrier, doctors were surprised to find that Mallon did not herself become ill from the disease.  After her first voluntary quarantines, Mallon moved  from job to job, disguising her identity.  She was only tracked down from the trail of sick and dead that she left behind.   Mallon was permanently quarantined  followed a court order. She died, still in quarantine at Riverside Hospital, in 1938.