Typhoid Mary by Judith Walzer Leavitt

Author:Judith Walzer Leavitt [Leavitt, Judith Walzer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9559-1
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1996-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 6.1. One of the concrete buildings of Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, date unknown.

Let us return to North Brother Island, where health officials moved a resistant, scared, and angry Mary Mallon weeks after seizing her in March, 1907. North Brother Island is one of a pair of small land masses in the East River (the other is South Brother Island), between the Bronx and Riker’s Island. A ferry connected the island with the mainland at 132nd Street in the Bronx, and it shuttled doctors, nurses, hospital staff, and patients back and forth across the water. In those years, Riverside Hospital, a city hospital that catered to tuberculosis patients, dominated the island (see fig. 6.1).48 Mercifully for her, the health department did not put Mallon inside the main hospital or in any of its various concrete satellites, where she would have been exposed to the respiratory ailment, but instead let her live in a one-room frame bungalow on the grounds, where she could contemplate her fate alone (see fig. 6.2).

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