Mayard pleaded with the doctors to make her take insanity tests, but no one listened to her. When Nellie asked Mayard why she was in the Insane Asylum, the woman explained how she was suffering from nervous debility and that she was not insane.
Later that day, Nellie met Tillie Mayard, whom she described as a smart and sane woman. But the nurses replied how it is a rule in the institution that heating only gets turned on in October and how the patients have to endure.Īmerican journalist Nellie Bly (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Then, a doctor came to examine the women in the room and remarked how it was so cold that all of them could get pneumonia. At 7 a.m., she was given cold chicken broth. The next morning, at 6 a.m., the nurses pulled the covers from Nellie’s bed and told her to wake up. Her bed was hard with a dent in the middle, and the journalist laid awake all night because the chatter and stomping of the nurses were so loud. On her first night at Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum, Nellie was given a long, thin gown, her clothes were labeled and taken away, and she was placed in a bitterly cold room with locked windows. One doctor even described her as “positively demented.” She talked and behaved normally, but to her surprise, the more normal she acted, the crazier she was perceived by the doctors and nurses. Once inside, Nellie was not pretending she was insane. After she and her editor made preparations for the “mission,” Nellie went to a women’s boarding house, acted insanely, and was sent to an Insane Asylum. The Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum in New York was the one Nellie Bly chose. “Ten Days in a Mad-House” by Nellie Bly (Source: Wikipedia)
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