they mental were going crazy robbing banks and stealing and murder is what they did not on purpose anyway but because they were mental they couldn't control themselves in public so the mental hospitals were invented so they could help the people with mental illness..... and i hopw my answer helped please comment :P
Taxes hospitals and families
She got then out of prisons and into hospitals.
Julius Hoenig has written: 'The desegregation of the mentally ill' -- subject(s): Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospitals, Care
Most hospitals for them were in Michigan
she made hospitals for mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix started a hospital for the mentally ill. She visited hundreds of jails and even taught Sunday School at a jail. She also saw that Children were given the same punishments of adults and stopped that.
John Robert Lord has written: 'Mental hospitals and the public' -- subject(s): Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospitals, Care
Charlotte A Kerr has written: 'Survey of facilities and programs for mentally disordered offenders' -- subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals, Mentally ill offenders
In the 1840s, Dorothea Dix investigated the conditions in which mentally ill patients were living. She often found them in prisons, and they were treated like criminals. Dix worked to improve the conditions in which mentally ill patients lived, and she worked to get state governments to build mental hospitals.
Franklin Gessford Ebaugh has written: 'The care of the psychiatric patient in general hospitals' -- subject(s): Care, Hospitals, Mentally ill
mentally ill