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Worn hi Said to be Living Culture of Disease Germs Complains of Her Treatment.New York, June 29.—A cook who, according to the records of the board of health, is a living culture of typhoid fever bacilli, aud who has been for the past two years in close confinement on North Brother Island, tried today to obtain release from Justice Giegerieh, in the superior court. She is Mary Mallon, and in her day cooked in the homes of J. Ooleman Drayton,. Henry Gilsey and others in New York, to say nothing of Heaiy’s restaurant, in upper Broadway. The records of the health department show something like 28 cases of typhoid that followed in the wake of Mary Mallon. The doctors call it one of the most interesting cases of chronic typhoid on record.The writ of habeas corpus which brought Mary into court today was sued out by George Francis O’Neill. O’Neill says that she is illegally deprived of her liberty. The health department, represented by George Paul Nicholson, asked for an adjournment of the case until tomorrow. Mary was taken back to the island^ where she says she has been kept like a leper for the last two years, with only a dog for company. She says that her food has been shoved through the door three times a day by a nurse, who immediately ran away.The health department took her to North Brother Island two years ago in March under a city law.Tickets at boat. Everybody 25 cents. Moonlight Steamer Po-kanoket, Thursday night, July 1st. Everybody 25 cents. Leave Petersburg at 8 p. m.
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Petersburg Daily Progress
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Wed, Jun 30, 1909
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