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Hannah Mills



Hannah Mills was a Quaker from Leeds, England, whose treatment and death in 1790 while confined in the York Asylum is recognised as having led to the development of the York Retreat, which pioneered the moral treatment of mental illness that became a model for progressive practices worldwide.



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