But in 1844 the Yankee reformer Dorothea Dix came to New Jersey to agitate for the construction of a modern state asylum. To prove her point, she traveled around the state to document the horrible conditions facing the mentally ill. She found people living in filth, chained up, and beaten. At the Morris County Poor House she found that the violently insane were kept in the cellar, where, said Dix, one would not want to keep a dog...
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But in 1844 the Yankee reformer Dorothea Dix came to New Jersey to agitate for the construction of a modern state asylum. To prove her point, she traveled around the state to document the horrible conditions facing the mentally ill. She found people living in filth, chained up, and beaten. At the Morris County Poor House she found that the violently insane were kept in the cellar, where, said Dix, one would not want to keep a dog...
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Dorothea Dix When asked why the jail was in these conditions her answer was, ‘the insane do not feel heat or cold’” (Bumb, 2008). Dix found the mentally ill in overcrowded areas, chained in poorly ventilated cellars (Viney, 2008)...	3 / 785
Dorothea Dix The grandmother had given her dancing lessons and even her own private seamstress. Dix was not into this style of life and she would give some of her clothes away, and food to the poor; which had infuriated her grandmother...	5 / 1294
Mary Lewis Wyche This was a self-less act on her part that, ideally, would be modeled by all nurses. Despite the cultural restraints of her era Mary Wyche was forced to overcome, she followed through with her visions and dreams...	2 / 548
Dorothea Dix But in 1844 the Yankee reformer Dorothea Dix came to New Jersey to agitate for the construction of a modern state asylum. To prove her point, she traveled around the state to document the horrible conditions facing the mentally ill...	1 / 275