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jan 1, 1841 - 1841 Prison Reform

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Dorothea Dix
She took a job teaching inmates in an East Cambridge prison and played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill

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jan 1, 1841
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~ 185 years ago

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