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245 10 Ten Days in a Mad-house|h[Elektronisk resurs] 
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520    Ten Days in a Mad-house is an extended investigative essay
       by Nellie Bly that was published in 1987. In 1887 Nellie 
       Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a 
       young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for 
       herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” 
       reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island 
       Insane Asylum in New York. Her purpose was to discover 
       what life was like for those who had been deemed insane. 
       After a night of practicing deranged expressions in front 
       of a mirror, she checked into a boardinghouse. She refused
       to go to bed, telling the boarders that she was afraid of 
       them and that they looked "crazy". They soon decided that 
       she was "crazy", and the next morning summoned the police.
       Taken to a courtroom, she pretended to have amnesia. The 
       judge concluded she had been drugged. Several doctors then
       examined her; all declared her insane. "Positively 
       demented," said one, "I consider it a hopeless case. She 
       needs to be put where someone will take care of her." The 
       head of the insane pavilion at Bellevue Hospital 
       pronounced her "undoubtedly insane". Committed to the 
       asylum, Bly experienced its conditions firsthand. The food
       consisted of gruel broth, spoiled beef, bread that was 
       little more than dried dough, and dirty undrinkable water.
       The dangerous patients were tied together with ropes. The 
       patients were made to sit for much of each day on hard 
       benches with scant protection from the cold. Rats crawled 
       all around the hospital. The bathwater was frigid and 
       buckets of it were poured over their heads. The nurses 
       behaved obnoxiously and abusively, telling the patients to
       shut up, and beating them if they did not. Speaking with 
       her fellow patients, Bly was convinced that some were as 
       sane as she was. The book's graphic depiction of 
       conditions at the asylum caused a sensation which brought 
       Bly lasting fame and prompted a grand jury to launch its 
       own investigation with Bly assisting. The jury's report 
       resulted in an $850,000 increase in the budget of the 
       Department of Public Charities and Corrections. An 
       independent film version of 10 Days in a Madhouse, written
       and directed by Timothy Hines, starring Caroline Barry, 
       Christopher Lambert, Kelly Le Brock and Julia Chantrey, 
       was released the fall of 2015, from Pendragon Pictures. 
       Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was the pen name of American 
       journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. She remains notable 
       for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in 
       emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg (Around 
       the World in Seventy-Two Days, published in 1890), and an 
       exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental 
       institution from within (Ten Days in a Mad-house, 1887). 
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