![]() ![]() ![]() The Almshouse complex, the end of the line for many - IV: The hospitals for the poor: in operation beginning 1832, to serve the sick people of New York City, and the inmates of the penitentiary, workhouse, and almshouse. ![]() ![]() Stocking: superintendent of the Blackwell's Island Workhouse from 1886 to 1889 A workhouse exposé and Lawrence Dunphy: superintendent of the Blackwell's Island Workhouse from 1889 to 1896 - III: the Almshouse: completed in 1848, to house the poor and disabled of New York City. New York City and the unworthy poor ' Rev. Reverend William Glenney French: the Blackwell's Island Episcopal missionary from 1872 to 1895 Sister Mary Stanislaus: committed to the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island August 3, 1872, Diagnosis monomania Sister Mary Stanislaus is admitted into the Asylum the trial of Sister Mary Suicide, murder, and accidental deaths on the rise in the Lunatic Asylum Lunacy investigation: December 1880, Metropolitan Hotel, New York City Nellie Bly: ten days in a mad house, September 1887 - II: The workhouse: a penal institution for people convicted of minor crimes, opened on Blackwell's Island in 1852. Blackwell's Island 1839, to accommodate New York City's lunatic poor. I: The New York City Lunatic Asylum: opened on. ![]()
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