One of the most horrible places in new York will be featured in a new series from BBC America. Events in the new show will be centered around Typhoid Mary — the woman who lived in the early XX century, which was one of the first in new York was diagnosed with asymptomatic typhoid. Actress Elisabeth moss («Mad men,» «the handmaid’s Tale») will be one of the Executive producers of the project and will play a major role.
Typhoid Mary, which is actually named Mary Mallonimmigrated to the United States from Ireland. The woman worked as a cook in several households in new York and the surrounding area. Investigation of 1907 showed that the seven members of the eight families who worked miss Mallon, contracted typhoid fever is an unpleasant disease caused by bacterial infection with symptoms including fever, headaches, diarrhea and swelling of the abdomen.
Most of Mary Mallon, the typhoid symptoms manifested, it was considered healthy carrier, and was subsequently quarantined for three years in the now-abandoned riverside hospital on the island of North-Brother. His famous nickname Typhoid Mary was due to the article published by researcher George Sopera in the journal of the American medical Association issued in 1907.
Mary Mallon was released from the hospital in 1910 under the condition that she will not return to the cooking. For several years she worked as a laundress, but then went back to cooking under the pseudonym Mary brown. After several outbreaks of typhoid in the areas of its work, woman was arrested again and placed in quarantine on the island of North-Brother, where she remained until her death in 1938.
Currently, the island of North brother was abandoned and unavailable to the public. Ruins of the hospital represent a terrible illustration of the era in which medicines were not available from many deadly and contagious diseases. There is no consensus, is it fair to blame the outbreak of typhus exclusively Mary Mallon. In the end, she was an immigrant, and ways to make money and to survive she was available not so much. The result is Typhoid Mary was quarantined for nearly three decades.
Released series is still unknown. So, to see how disgusting was new York was only a century ago, will have to wait a bit.
