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EXPOS——_ * ' ijra Bff«ht wom»s» r«iirfSK l*MMisUy fftiMlBr»v«« lb* VrnrM* or bmxvwMiXKmmvmMjCmB*Tbe Niw York - flPbrfhae been -do* Ing another good work Iri exposingthe ways of Insane asylums and ythii prs*texwlonn of insanity experts. A, bright I lady reporter was employed who, with \ scarcely any effort got herself sent to Bellevue hospital, passed the examination of the experts and was sent to theInsaneasylum on Blackwell1* Island, She writes a plain reportof all her ex* perlenoee anc tbescenes she witnessed. From which It appears that' the atfceh-, dantH and authorities about the charityhospitals are about like Pfoplf geper-*Uyfbqih good and bad* ^he exposure wl ii ,undoubtedly result in a cleaningout of the Incompetent and cruejopes.But the success of such ventures aug* gests .the. uncomfortable id®* that theremay be numbers of perfectly sane people incarcerated inside the madhouses of the land placed there by the mall*clousnesa of enemies or the greed, of, relatives. What horrible fate couldbe worse than this,* to be confinedmong manlcs while every eewfe «open to the heartrending, cruel soepea J to see day after day pasa and everyavenue of escapeclosed. To appeal inin vain to visitors who,refuse to recognize the sanity of the appeal, hut luwri it to the vagaries of ait unsettled Jmad, and finally, from being constantly treated as craay persons, ito sink inbopelesa despair Into a state of settled melonolholy. Nellie- Brown, as ,theWorld reporter called lt;ber*elrf might have asserted herself sane forever, at Blackwell's Island and never secured her liberty. She had, wisely made an*:rnnant)t*nta i/% httv/% Maneim /nnu* aiul
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New York Commercial Advertiser
New York, New York, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1887
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