The New York City health inspector carried out some tests and that Mary was a carrier .In 1910 she was transferred to an island near New York City, where she lives in isolation for three years. She was then released but told that she should not work with food again. However,in 1915 she took a job as a cook in a hospital and ‘ 25 doctors,nurses, and other hospital staff-two of them died. Mary was then seized again and kept in for 23 years, living alone in a one-room cottage.
In December 1932, Mary suffered a massive stroke, which left her paralysed. She died in 1938 of pneumonia.
Today ‘Typhoid Mary’ is a term used to describe a carrier of a dangerous who refuses to take precautions or with the authorities.