Officials at Eloise and members of the county board of supervisors requested that an administrative survey be made of the entire institution. A special committee of the county board of supervisors asked the Citizens Research Council to undertake the survey. The survey was drafted by the Council with the assistance of professional hospital consultants and was presented to the committee by the Research Council in March, 1954. the key recommendations concerned the board of county institutions itself, since it is this board which by law has charge of the institution.