Title: Ten days in a mad-house
Description: In the 1800s, journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be mentally ill  and spent 10 days in an insane asylum in order to report on conditions and abuses there.
Subjects: Mentally ill, Commitment and detention, New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, Psychiatric hospitals, New York (N.Y.)., Hospitals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Social Security, Social Services & Welfare, Internal medicine, Mental Health, Mental Health Institution, Blackwell's Island, New York. Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island, Prison, Judge, Court, Expose, Hospital, New York State, Asylum, Sanitarium, Psychiatry - general & miscellaneous, Medical ethics, Civil rights - general, Psychology - history, Psychopathology - general & miscellaneous, Mental health services & personnel, Bly, nellie, 1867-1922, New york (n.y.), hospitals
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York, Blackwell's Island, New York City (New York), Roosevelt Island (New York)
People: Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly (1864-1922)
Time periods: mid-1800s, 1887