*** Quoting Bj”rn Forsstr”m from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

BK>>  Dangerous and guilty are two different things. Typhoid Mary was
BK>>  not guilty of anything, but she was a deadly danger to society
BK>>  so society locked her up.

 CS> Actually she wasnt entirely 'innocent'.  Perhaps at first she didnt know
 CS> what was going on but later, she did and continued anyways to work in
 CS> places not appropriate.  I seem to recall she also was a horrible
 CS> housekeeper.  They locked her up because they couldnt get her to stop
 CS> exposing the public even after repeated attempts to make her clean up her
 CS> act and not be a cook.

BF>  Is this Typhoid Mary someone that we should know of?
BF> Was she something like a woman the police cought here that had AIDS an
BF> still practised her job as a prostitute? They guess that she have had
BF> at least 100 guys.

She lived from something like 1880-1938, was an Irish immagrant to the USA
as a ¨child (early teen, 14 or so).  Lived around the Northeastern USA (New
¨Jersey/New Yorkish areas).  She was identified and warned then
incarcerated for ¨3 years in a TB facility then let free after promising to
not work as a cook ¨anymore.  She didnt do that though and quite a few more
people died before they ¨were able to find she and lock her back up.

She never believed it was her although she consistantly failed all the
medical ¨tests (Positive for Typhoid) because 'she wasnt sick'.  Very very
slovenly ¨housekeeper too.  Her cabin for example was filled with dog
feces.

Apparently some 3% of the typhoid survivors can be carriers which is
fixable ¨today, but wasnt then.  Had she just been re-educated so she could
get a job ¨other than cooking, she would probably never have been a problem
after first ¨being identified, but the world wasnt too progressive on that
then so she had ¨no other way to make money to live on.
                                       xxcarol

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