Newspaper results for typhoid mary

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768 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (96 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. The Washington Herald — 1909-07-04, page 25

    … There was a medically famous gase of the same kind in New York in the per. son of ‘Typhoid Mary,” a cook, who took disease #13 death with her wherever she worked. We now more …

  2. The Washington Times — 1909-08-04, page 4

    … and was a distributer of the germs, the case being somewhat similar to that of “Typhoid Mary,” who is confined by the New York authorities. The permit to supply milk te the …

  3. Evening Star — 1909-12-05, page 21

    … government experts for examination. Comstock, who resists being placfed in the Typhoid Mary" class, says he has been in the milk business here for seven years with no suspicion …

  4. The Washington Times — 1910-05-08, page 9

    … physicians here, promises TO occupy a similar position in medical history 70 hat Of Typhoid Mary" OF New york To him are said 20 have been traced the dIphtheria epidemics Of Pontiac …

  5. Evening Star — 1910-09-18, page 56

    … housekeepers result in the death of thousands of ]>eople every year. There is the case of "Typhoid Mary" in New York. She was a cook in many households. Wherever she went typhoid followed …

  6. Evening Star — 1911-04-09, page 68

    … where mysteri- ^ ous typhoid epidemics have occurred. The in celebrated case of "Typhoid Mary" in fr New York set the medical experts on an tr entirely new trail. A robust Adirondack …

  7. Evening Star — 1911-11-19, page 53

    … The Horrors of Pellagra?Controlling Typhoid ? Women Who Carry Disease?Mrs. X. and Typhoid Mary. 'Onprrijttit. 1811. hj- Frank G. Carpenter.) ON'KEYS whirl have the measles Kuinea …

    … bacilli which cause the disease. One case of this kind was that of a cook known as "Typhoid Mary." She went from place to place and wherever ,. she worked the people got the typhoid …

  8. Evening Star — 1911-12-03, page 14

    … the city of New York was begun today in behalf of Mary Walton, better known as "Typhoid Mary," for $.10,000 for alleged false imprisonment on North Brothers Island by direction …

    … of the health department. "Typhoid Mary" has been referred to as a regular germ carrier of typhoid, al- 1 though she never …

  9. Evening Star — 1912-07-20, page 8

    … milk supply are convinced the germs are being carried in a manner similar to the "Typhoid Mary" case of New York several years ago. "Other sources of possible infection having …

  10. The Washington Herald — 1912-08-18, page 18

    … diet, sleep, exercise, baths, mental treatment, reading, sleep ng. and relaxa tion Typhoid Mary has broken Into fiction and adder! another to the long list of victims which have …

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