A Life of Isolation
It didn’t take investigators long to realize that Mary was responsible for the outbreak. Police arrested the Irish cook and dragged her back to North Brother Island. But this time, it was for an extended stay. Mary was confined to North Brother Island until she died, 23 years later. However, by the time she died in 1938, a great deal had been learned about the disease and its transmission.
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Doctors learned more about asymptomatic carriers, and several others were identified. People still debate the ethics surrounding her case, even today. It’s safe to say that Typhoid Mary never quite understood how dangerous she was to the public. But the same can’t be said for con artist Julia Lyons, who used the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic to her advantage.