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What prompted Dorothea Dix to work for reforms in jails and asylums

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Dix saw the cruel treatment of the mentally ill in East Cambridge jail in Massachusetts.

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Answer: Dix saw the cruel treatment of the mentally ill in East Cambridge jail in Massachusetts. Dix's meeting with Samuel Tuke, the founder of the York retreat for the mentally ill.

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