Byline: Unsigned; Tuesday, September 3, 1872; The New York Tribune; pages 4
Report: Bloomingdale Asylum Exposé - Julius Chambers - The New York Tribune
Tags: Bloomingdale Asylum, insane, lunatic, mental institution, posed as patient
Article Links"The investigation of THE TRIBUNE has developed all that it set out to accomplish. It has been shown that physicians can be had at random to swear a man's vita away with less hesitation than they will attempt the lease difficult of surgical operations; and that briefer examination is needful to satisfy the average family doctor that a man's brain is disordered than that his leg is broken. . . . "
Description:A summation of the results of Julius Chambers' undercover investigation of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum and the impact it was expected to have on pending court cases.
Rights: public domain
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