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The Board of Consulting Physicians and Surgeons to the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island and the New-York County Asylum for the Insane on Ward's Island, to whom the several alleged cases ...

New York Assistant District Attorney Henry Macdona thought it was far too dangerous for a young girl like Nellie Bly to have herself thrown into the lunatic asylum at Blackwell's Island.

Blackwell’s Island, now known as Roosevelt’s Island ... The mental institution associated with the hospital, for the insane or lunatic asylum, was “rumored to treat its patients most ...

Bly would pose as an insane woman and allow herself to be committed to Blackwell's Island -- New York City's notorious asylum. What resulted was a searing exposé that got the attention of ...

Off the tiny island of Manhattan, an even tinier piece of land called Blackwell's Island was home to a lunatic asylum, workhouse, alms house, charity hospital and prison. Most of the men ...

In 1887, American journalist Nellie Bly had herself committed to New York's notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum — on purpose, as part of an assignment from the New York World newspaper.

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In 1887, the writer Nelly Bly voluntarily boarded a boat for Blackwell’s Island where she would spend 10 days in an insane asylum. Her work exposing the brutal treatment of patients on the ...