Byline: Unsigned; 1887-11-03; New York World; pages 12:1
Report: Nellie Bly and Other Stunt Girls (and Boys) of the Late 1880s-Early 1900s
Tags: Blackwell's Island, insane asylum, madhouse, mental hospital, Nellie Bly, posed as
"... From their investigation, the body came to the conclusion that the appropriation made to the Department of Charities and Correction for the present year is insufficient to permit the payment of salaries necessary to secure the services of trained nurses and comptent junior physicians and that these branches of the service are consequentially not as efficient as they should be; that the present medical staff is inadequate to meet the requirements of over 1,600 insane patients confined to the institution, and that the nurses examined are not qualified for the proper discharge of the important duties intrusted to them . . . "
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