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concerning the management of the New-York City Lunatic Asylum, on Blackwell's Island, the treatment of the patients therein, and important statistics of the institution since its opening in 1847.

Bly would pose as an insane woman and allow herself to be committed to Blackwell's Island -- New York City's notorious ... At the Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum,' she answered sadly.