Editing Typhoid Mary (section)

==First Quarantine==
Mallon was eventually taken into custody by the police in 1907. During an interview with the young woman regarding her role as a cook in several people's houses, Mallon admitted to not washing her hands while preparing meals for her masters, and stated that she didn't understand why she had to. The officials eventually managed to get a hold of Mary's urine and stool samples, and it was eventually revealed that her gallbladder was infested with thyroid salmonella. She stubbornly refused to have her infected gallbladder removed, and she also refused to give up her job as a cook, because she was still in denial about how she was carrying a disease.

Eventually, the New York City Health Inspector concluded that she was, in fact, a carrier for the typhoid fever. She was eventually taken to be quarantined at the North Brother Island. She remained isolated for three years.

Later on, Eugene H. Porter, the Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, decided that isolating infected people from society was morally wrong. In a compromise between him and the young woman, Porter agreed to release the young woman from the clinic under one condition. The condition stated that she should never work as a cook again, and that she would practice more hygienic ethics. Mallon agreed to this compromise, and she was soon released from the clinic.

Mallon later took the job as a laundress, and eventually went back to her role as a cook, because she received less payment from her new job as a laundress. She also made herself a new name for herself, and changed jobs frequently.

A serious case of typhoid fever arose in the Solane Hospital for Women in 1915. Only two people died. City health officials discovered that an Irish-American woman matching Mallon's description mysteriously disappeared from the kitchen at the time of the epidemic, and they eventually tracked her down to an estate in Long Island. She was arrested on March 27<sup>th</sup>, 1915; and she was returned to the North Brother Island, and remained there for the rest of her life.