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Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix brought the introduction of mental asylums and hospitals for the mentally sick. She encouraged the poor and sick people to get better as soon as they can. Since Dorothea Dix has taken this opportunity to help, it has changed the lives of many mentally ill children and adults.
Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine. She was the eldest of three children, and her father, Joseph Dix, was a religious fanatic and distributor of religious tracts who made Dorothea stitch and paste the tracts together, a chore she hated. Dix had many admirers over her lifetime, and was briefly engaged to her second cousin, Edward Bangs, she never married. Therefore she had no children. Dix worked closely with Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Philadelphia physician whose philosophy for building and running hospitals to treat the insane was known as "The Kirkbride Plan." The New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum was the first Kirkbride Plan hospital to be built; it is now known as the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. She served as Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War. Dorothea Dix´s work exposing and pushing for legislative changes in the conditions under which the mentally ill were housed and treated led to phenomenal reforms. “Prisons and almshouses, where people suffering from mental illness were housed side-by-side with criminals or the poor, gave way to exclusively dedicated facilities. Dix´s work resulted in the founding of thirty-two mental hospitals or mental institutions dedicated specifically to the care of the mentally ill. Prisons at the time were unregulated and unhygienic, with violent criminals housed side by side with the mentally ill.” Dix visited every public and private facility she could access, documenting the conditions she found with unflinching honesty. She then presented her findings to the legislature of Massachusetts, demanding that officials take action toward reform. Her reports—filled with dramatic
Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine. She was the eldest of three children, and her father, Joseph Dix, was a religious fanatic and distributor of religious tracts who made Dorothea stitch and paste the tracts together, a chore she hated. Dix had many admirers over her lifetime, and was briefly engaged to her second cousin, Edward Bangs, she never married. Therefore she had no children. Dix worked closely with Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Philadelphia physician whose philosophy for building and running hospitals to treat the insane was known as "The Kirkbride Plan." The New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum was the first Kirkbride Plan hospital to be built; it is now known as the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. She served as Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War. Dorothea Dix´s work exposing and pushing for legislative changes in the conditions under which the mentally ill were housed and treated led to phenomenal reforms. “Prisons and almshouses, where people suffering from mental illness were housed side-by-side with criminals or the poor, gave way to exclusively dedicated facilities. Dix´s work resulted in the founding of thirty-two mental hospitals or mental institutions dedicated specifically to the care of the mentally ill. Prisons at the time were unregulated and unhygienic, with violent criminals housed side by side with the mentally ill.” Dix visited every public and private facility she could access, documenting the conditions she found with unflinching honesty. She then presented her findings to the legislature of Massachusetts, demanding that officials take action toward reform. Her reports—filled with dramatic