In the early 1800 , most Mentelly ill people were kept locked up in prisons Dorothea Dix studied the poor treatment of the Mentally ill and reported her findings to the state legislature , wich autorized funds for state mental hospital. The reformers also pushed for the creation of prisons, hospital, orphanages, and institution to care for physically disabled people.
Dorothea Dix, a tireless crusader for the treatment of the Mentally ill was made the superintendent of nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War. After the War , she retired to an apartment in the first hospital that she had founded, in Trenton, New Jersey.
Dorothea Lynde Dix born in Hampden, Maine, US in April 4,1802 and died July 17,1887(aged 85) Treton, New Jersey, U.S.
The parents was Joshep Dix and Mary Bigelow.
The year 1841 also marked the begining of the superintendence of DR.John Lalt at Williansbrug, Virginia the first Publicy supported psychiathic hospital in america.
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