In 1887 her assignment for the New York World was an expose of the insane asylum on Blackwell's Island
Her resulting expos, titled Ten Days in a Mad-House and originally published 
as a series of articles in New York World, is now included .... Blackwell's Island 
asylum, she was assigned to the insane pavilion  the mental... [DOC] [TLE] Nellie Bly: Undercover in New York's Notorious Asylum for the Insane [PAR] Nov 13, 2015 ...