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Ten Days In A Mad-House
"Well, you don't need to expect any kindness here, for you won't get it," she said, and she went out, and closed the door....
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Title: Ten Days In A Mad-House
Creator: Nellie Bly (author)
Date: 1887
Format: Book
Publisher: Norman L. Munro, Publisher, New York
Source: Available at selected libraries
Keywords: Abuse; Advocacy; Asylums; Attendants; Autobiography; Bellevue Hospital; Blackwell's Island; Civil Liberties & Rights; Confinement; Doctors; Employment; Expose; Food; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Immigration; Insanity; Institutions; Jurisprudence; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Media; Medical Professionals; Medication; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Neglect; Nellie Bly; New York; New York City, NY; Newspapers; Nursing; Policy; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Urban Life; Women & Gender; Work
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy