A List of Dorothea Dix's Reports
In Dix's "Memorial," consisting of forty eight pages, she urged legislature to approve funding for "an Asylum for this class, the incurable, where conflicting duties shall not admit of such examples of privation and misery."
Published in 1845, Dix remarks, "Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions --how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?" This document has 112 pages.
Consisting of fifty two pages, this "Memorial" was written by Dix for the legislature of New Jersey in January of 1845, where the first public mental hospital was opened in Trenton. She died there in 1887.
Published in November of 1848, Dix chides North Carolina for being the second to last of the original thirteen colonies "to make provisions for the care and cure of her insane citizens," Dix appeals to "liberal and humane hearts" to establish care for the mentally ill. It has fifty six pages.
These are just four examples of the many Memorials she wrote for the eastern states of the US. They all more or less encompass the same message, and they all helped her to achieve her main goal of providing the care that the mentally ill needed.