10 Days in a Mad-House

​22 Years after the Civil War.

​ 5 years after Edison invented electricity.

​Grover Cleveland was president.

​5 years after the first Labor Day.

​After the Industrial Revolution in America.

​Women had NO rights.

​Children rarely went to school mostly worked.

Was the pen name for Elizabeth Seaman Cochrane.​

​She was a journalist for the New York World.

​Went undercover to reveal the mistreatment in asylums.

​Wrote a series of articles about what was happening.

​She was able to go to court to grant the state more money in asylums.

​More than just an asylum, also included a hospital for smallpox and a prison.

​The hospital held people that were known as "incurable," people who had severe conditions which could not be cured.

​Parts of the original building still remains standing.