Draft of History of Eloise Hospital [Detroit, Michigan].

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Draft of History of Eloise Hospital [Detroit, Michigan].

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Record group 62-21 consists of a draft (ca. 1933) of the 2nd edition of the book History of Eloise: Wayne County House, Wayne County Asylums, by Stanislas M. Keenan, which was originally published in 1913. The draft document includes photographs of physical plant and staff, transcripts of the addition, plus editorial changes of the of the first edition. In 1982, Keenan and Alvin Clark published A history of Wayne County Infirmary, Psychiatric, and General Hospital complex at Eloise, Michigan, 1832-1982. This publication evidently used the draft described above. However, it is unclear how much of the original draft was used since Clark's update is 156 pages (less voluminous than the draft).

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Eloise (Hospital : Wayne County, Mich.)

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Wayne County General Hospital

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Wayne County General Hospital operated from 1839 to 1981, and served as a psychiatric hospital that housed poor and sick people as well as the mentally ill. Known more commonly by the name of the nearby post office, Eloise Hospital was self-sufficient, and by the 1930s contained a dairy farm, its own fire department and over 7,000 people. It became known officially as Wayne County General Hospital in 1945. The hospital closed in 1981 and most of the seventy-eight buildings were destroyed. ...

Keenan, Stanislas M.

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