Nelly Bly is the pseudonym for journalist Elizhabeth Jane Cochrane.
In 1887 she published Ten days in a Mad-House,which chronicles her undercover assignment for a newspaper that saw her feigning indsnity and getting admitted to the Woman's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. Chohrane's acting was so convincing that a several doctors declared her to be insine after examining her. Once inside the inside the asylum Chochrane was able to discover the shocking condition and inhumane treatments experienced by the patients. Her newspaper got Cochrane released after ten days and her subsequent report on what is really going on at the asylum ensured more funding and better treatment for patiens. It also left a lot of doctors red-faced at being deveived and resulted in more thorough examination to ensure only a who were seriously ill got commited.
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