Dix continued her work on the state level by continuing in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. In 1843, the opening of the New York State Lunatic Asylum in Utica opened seven years after state legislature approved the asylum Dix’s was lobbying. The original plan was to spend $500,000 but increased the funding in order to create four wings, and accommodate for over 1,000 people. Dix concluded in her time in New York that they should create new state facilities for the incurable insane, and she urged legislature to establish several asylums in different parts of the states. She said that a plan similar to the one in Utica would be created, but with lower costs. Although the costs were to be lower they still needed to assure comfort and careful attendance. Dix moved right from New York into lobbying in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Dix hoped to promote moral treatment in Pennsylvania, Dix had already successfully got Pennsylvania legislature to approve the construction of a state asylum. The insane that were once kept in almshouses had a designated place to live; this was …show more content…
In Nashville, Tennessee Dix was praised; she was seen as a women filled with admiration. In February of 1848, they agreed to fund a mental hospital designed with Dix’s most recently accepted plans. The hospital was called the Hospital for the Insane and was dedicated to curing not just housing. He next victory came from a fellow southern state, Kentucky allotted 5,000 dollars, but did not approve a national committee, a group to help lobbying and approving a federal plan for the mental ill. Dix also was able to get the Louisiana legislature to approve money for a committee and approved asylum funds in March of 1847. The last of Dix state successes came from Illinois, they succumbed to Dix lobbying and opened a new asylum, and even prisons were repaired.