His report mentions the volunteers coming from a naval facility on Deer Island, but nothing regarding prisoners or pardoning of sentences. The doctor in charge of the experiment, Joseph Goldberger, published a report on the experiment in 1921. The prisoners possibly became immunized due to exposure to the virus during the weeks preceding the trial, experiencing few symptoms or none at all. None of the volunteers fell sick, but the ward doctor contracted the disease and died. These men were promised pardons if they survived a set of tests. Following the August 1918 flu pandemic, in an attempt to develop a vaccine, 62 volunteers were selected from 300 prisoners. In his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson mentions an experiment done at the naval prison on Deer Island. The Deer Island prison is mentioned in Sylvia Plath's poem "Point Shirley" and her novel The Bell Jar. The Deer Island House of Correction existed until 1991, when the prisoners were permanently transferred to the South Bay House of Correction. In 1896, the almshouse facility became one of the short-term prisons for Suffolk County. The Deer Island wastewater plant and surrounding park area, 2008
Some, such as the medicine man, Tantamous, escaped Deer Island only to be recaptured later. Additionally, a group of nine Praying Indian women and their six children were sent to Great Brewster Island because they did not wish to join their husbands on Deer Island.ĭuring the winter of 1675–76, between 500 and 1,100 American Indians were held on the island, and without adequate food or shelter and because of exposure to harsh winter weather, many died. Most went to Deer Island, but at least one colony was sent to Long Island. Christian "Praying Indians" were moved from Concord, Marlborough and Natick in spite of the efforts of John Eliot, the minister of Roxbury, to prevent it. During King Philip's War (also known as Metacomet's War) in the 1670s, it was used as a place of internment. Over the years, Deer Island has had several different uses. Sir Thomas Temple was also the uncle of John Nelson (1654–1734), a New England trader and statesman, who owned neighboring Long Island in Boston Harbor, which at one time was also known as "Nelson's Island". It was once leased to Sir Thomas Temple (1614–1674), a British proprietor and governor of Nova Scotia although this descent was debunked by E. Deer Island, far right center, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1888 map of Boston Harbor 1600s
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