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Faust, Richard A.

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) worked to help the mentally ill and helped create the first mental asylums in America. She went to North Carolina in 1848 to change attitudes concerning mental illness and found mental institutions there.

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 45 Issue 9, February 1978, p25-27, il, por Periodical Website

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887; Mental illness; Mental hospitals; Mentally ill--Care of

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McCulloch, Margaret Callender

As part of a greater trend across the nation, the state began to increase attention on the mentally disabled in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries. In 1848, the Senate passed a bill approving of the establishment of a hospital and the means for funding and staffing such an institution. The passing of this bill can be attributed in large part to the efforts of Miss Dorothy Dix, an advocate for the mentally ill. The article reviews the political and social history of establishing an institution to treat the state's mentally handicapped.

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 13 Issue 3, July 1936, p185-201, f Periodical Website

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887; Mental hospitals