Question

In two to three sentences, describe the conditions that people with mental illnesses endured, according to Dix’s report.

Answer 1

Answer:

People were treated badly and were held in cages, closets, and other inappropriate spaces.The people were also whipped and beaten and treated more like animals than like people.

Explanation:

Answer 2

According to Dorothea Dix :

• Mentally ill people suffers a lot of pain and live in despair.
• People with mental illness are treated badly and are neglected by the society.
• They are forced to live in cages, prisons or in very unhygienic conditions.
• They were bullied, beaten and sometimes treated like animals.

Dorothea Dix

• Dorothea Dix was a social activist and nurse who changed the medical field drastically during her work.
• She advocated for the mentally ill people in the Massachusetts state legislature.
• She discovered that the mentally ill people were treated very badly in the prisons.
• She started working for the people in distress and mentally ill.

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