Not far from the glitzy lights and glamour of Manhattan in New York lies an island with a sordid and dark history.
North Brother Island served as a quarantine location for infected patients, including the infamous 'Typhoid Mary' Mallon, from the 1880s until 1943.
People suffering from deadly diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, leprosy and others were shipped over there away from New York's healthy mainland population where it was felt they would be a safe distance.
