What Dorothea Dix is best known for?

Answer 1

Late Life: Dorothea developed tuberculosis and left for Liverpool, England to recover. She stayed there for 18 months until well enough to travel home in 1838 to Boston. Dorothea volunteered to teach a Sunday school class for women at East Cambridge Jail in 1841. Many incarcerated women were insane, and Dorothea found them living in filthy, unheated cells. She appealed to the local court to install stoves in the women's cells and with the help of philanthropist Samuel Howe improved the women's conditions. She discovered from a few model institutions like the privately run McLean Hospital in Boston most housed the insane under sordid conditions. Many were chained, beaten, neglected, and abused. Dorothea wrote a testimony in 1843 including all her notes about the violent institutions. She read it to the state legislature which after weeks of heated debate finally approved funds for the expansion of the Worcester State Lunatic Hospital. She used the same procedure of observing institutions and writing testimonies in Rhode Island and New York and was successful. Later in life, Dorothea proposed a plan to the War Department to establish a volunteer corps of women nurses. She was commissioned as Superintendent of Women Nurses for the Union Army in June, 1861. By now Dix was fifty-nine years old and in poor health. Still, she began the hard task of finding nurses and procuring medication supplies. After the Civil War, Dix continued work for the mentally ill raising money for more than the fifty hospitals that had been established because of her efforts. In 1881 she retired to the Trenton State Hospital, which had been built because of her efforts, where she died in 1887.

Answer 2

Dorothea Dix helps people with disablilities....


Dorothea Dix was also a person with a disability. Not anymore because unfortunately she'd dead. Here is some information on her:

Late Life: Dorothea developed tuberculosis and left for Liverpool, England to recover. She stayed there for 18 months until well enough to travel home in 1838 to Boston. Dorothea volunteered to teach a Sunday school class for women at East Cambridge Jail in 1841. Many incarcerated women were insane, and Dorothea found them living in filthy, unheated cells. She appealed to the local court to install stoves in the women's cells and with the help of philanthropist Samuel Howe improved the women's conditions. She discovered from a few model institutions like the privately run McLean Hospital in Boston most housed the insane under sordid conditions. Many were chained, beaten, neglected, and abused. Dorothea wrote a testimony in 1843 including all her notes about the violent institutions. She read it to the state legislature which after weeks of heated debate finally approved funds for the expansion of the Worcester State Lunatic Hospital. She used the same procedure of observing institutions and writing testimonies in Rhode Island and New York and was successful. Later in life, Dorothea proposed a plan to the War Department to establish a volunteer corps of women nurses. She was commissioned as Superintendent of Women Nurses for the Union Army in June, 1861. By now Dix was fifty-nine years old and in poor health. Still, she began the hard task of finding nurses and procuring medication supplies. After the Civil War, Dix continued work for the mentally ill raising money for more than the fifty hospitals that had been established because of her efforts. In 1881 she retired to the Trenton State Hospital, which had been built because of her efforts, where she died in 1887.

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Answer 3

intelligent beautiful sweet caring amazing courage leadership