Julius Chambers of the New-York Tribune had himself committed to the Bloomingdale Asylum in 1872,
and his account led to the release of twelve patients who were not mentally ill, a reorganization of the staff and administration, and eventually to a change in the lunacy laws; this later led to the publication of the book A Mad World and Its Inhabitants(1876).
Julius Chambers of the New York Tribune had himself committed to the Bloomingdale Asylum in 1872,
and his account led to the release of twelve patients who were not mentally ill, a reorganization of the staff and administration, and, eventually, to a change in the lunacy laws;[6] this later led to the publication of the book A Mad World and Its Inhabitants(1876).