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Official Institution Names 1832-1979

1832Wayne County Poorhouse
1872Wayne County Alms House
1886Wayne County House
1894Post Office established – “Eloise,” designated as official Post Office name
1911Eloise Hospital for Mental Illness (August 18) – (in accordance with State naming code affixing the name of the cities in which State mental hospitals were located)
1913Eloise Hospital
Eloise Infirmary (Poorhouse) Collectively referred to as “Eloise”
Eloise Sanitorium (T.B. Hospital
1945Wayne County General Hospital and Infirmary at Eloise, Michigan
1967Wayne County General Hospital (Included a Psychiatric Service and Long Term Care Facility)
1974Wayne County General Hospital
Wayne County Pyschiatric Hospital
1979Wayne County General Hospital
[ This information presented in whole from “A History of the Wayne County Infirmary, Psychiatric, and General Hospital Complex at Eloise, Michigan” by Alvin C. Clark; page 150. ]