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Dorothea Dix crusaded for humane treatment on the mentally ill. She began her work for the mentally ill in 1841.

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Dorothea Dix

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Who worked for the mentally ill and better treatment for criminals?

Dorothea Dix (Mrs Brewer.)


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In the 1840s, Dorothea Dix investigated the conditions in which mentally ill patients were living. She often found them in prisons, and they were treated like criminals. Dix worked to improve the conditions in which mentally ill patients lived, and she worked to get state governments to build mental hospitals.


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Dorothea Dix sympathized with mentally insane and worked to improve the conditions of the mentally insane.


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Dorothy Dix worked to help the mentally ill.


What group was Dorothea dix included in?

Dorothea Dix was a member of what is called the asylum movement. This movement was trying to remedy the abysmal treatment of the mentally ill in prisons by having state asylums built for them. A result of this movement was the creation of 32 asylums in the United States.


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