The nonfiction novel, Fatal Fever, by Gail Jarrow, tells the story of Typhoid Mary, who she was, and how the Health Department got her under control. Mary Mallon was a cook in the early 1900s, in New York. The plot is introduced with an outbreak of typhoid at Cornell University, the city of Ithaca hires a “germ detective” George Soper, to investigate and to help the city become a cleaner, more habitable place. Soper discovers a trend in random typhoid cases popping up around the state, and the one thing they all have in common is Mary Mallon. The health department decided on one thing, Mallon is too dangerous to cook food for others. 

 

Bellow I have some of my neatest notes, these notes are from our 2nd lesson. These are my notes of an idea I had about typhoid killing so many young people, and how I can also interpret that as the city needing desperate new sanitation improvements.

 

These are my notes from lesson 3, bellow there is a central idea that I had on how the cities back then were incredibly dirty and had horrible conditions. Following that point I have the supporting information from the book.

 

These are my notes from lesson 6, bellow I have how