Typhoid Mary

Album: The Toxic Touch (2006)
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  • Typhoid Mary. Although she was not a prisoner, and was permitted to travel to New York City, after being rearrested in 1915, Mary Mallon would spend the rest of her life in isolation on North Brother Island.

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