Record #:

19705

Author(s):

McCulloch, Margaret Callender

Abstract:

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.

Source:

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

Subject(s):

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887; Mental hospitals