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Dix, Dorothea
Nineteenth-century reformer who protested the practice of confining the mentally ill in prisons and whose labors led to the expansion and improvement of mental hospitals.
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You see, Joseph Dix, Dorothea's father, was a strange man.
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Year after year Mrs. Dix, Dorothea, and her two brothers sat in the house, doing this tiresome work.
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Dix, Dorothea L., her work for the insane, 88.
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Dix, Dorothea, 324, 327, 328-331.
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