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Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802–1887)

US educator and medical reformer. From 1841 she devoted herself to a campaign for the rights of the mentally ill, helping to improve conditions and treatment in public institutions for the insane in the USA, Canada, and Japan. During the American Civil War 1861–65, she served as superintendent of nurses.

Born in Hampden, Maine, and raised in Boston, Dix began her career as a teacher at a girls' school in Worcester, Massachusetts, and opened her own school in Boston 1821. Forced by ill health to retire in 1835, she travelled in Europe and published several books.
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COLUMN: LIFE & TIMES: An occasional series on Central Massachusetts people with enduring fame Vital statistics Dorothea Lynde Dix was born April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine; she died July 17, 1887, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
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