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Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Dorothea Dix

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Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887 CE), most noted for her report to the Massachusetts legislature about the inhumane conditions under which the mentally ill are held in prisons. Her report led to reform on how the mentally ill were treated.

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