She gave numerous memorials to the legislature of Massachusetts, her most famous being titled ‘I Tell What I Have Seen.’ (Dix) Dix wrote an act that she presented to the US Congress in 1854. The Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane originally asked that 10,000,000 acres of land be released and used for places of treatment for mentally ill people. (United States) It passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by President Franklin Pierce, who stated that it was the state's responsibility to provide for these people. (Peirce) Dix also returned to Europe, which led to her going on a tour of the jails, almshouses, and hospitals. She found that the conditions there were not unlike the US. Dix caused many reforms, in Scotland and surrounding countries. She alerted the Pope on these issues, who then required that new hospitals for better treatment be built and established.
She gave numerous memorials to the legislature of Massachusetts, her most famous being titled ‘I Tell What I Have Seen.’ (Dix) Dix wrote an act that she presented to the US Congress in 1854. The Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane originally asked that 10,000,000 acres of land be released and used for places of treatment for mentally ill people. (United States) It passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by President Franklin Pierce, who stated that it was the state's responsibility to provide for these people. (Peirce) Dix also returned to Europe, which led to her going on a tour of the jails, almshouses, and hospitals. She found that the conditions there were not unlike the US. Dix caused many reforms, in Scotland and surrounding countries. She alerted the Pope on these issues, who then required that new hospitals for better treatment be built and established.