Dorothea Dix By Brielle 3BE

Dorothea was born on April 4, 1802. Her death was in 1887. Dorothea was born in Hampden Maine. She worked in a Sunday school in Worcester Massachusetts. She lived in East Cambridge Massachusetts. Dorothea’s accomplishments were she founded and enlarged 32 mental hospitals and made a survey of Massachusetts prisons, poorhouses and insane asylums. Dorothea worked hard for the mentally ill.