the large hospital complex in nankin township called eloise was not a michigan state asylum. it was founded as a poor house and farm in 1839 and grew into a large hospital complex. at one time there was a t.b. sanitarium on the grounds which was phased out in 1923. wayne county was the only one of michigan's 83 counties that operated a psychiatric hospital, a general hospital, and an infirmary division all at the same place.