During the cholera epidemic, the Female Benevolent Society was reorganized to assume the care of destitute widows and children. Over the years, it extended help to elderly women, widows, convalescents and non-orphaned children and from 1883 to c. 1925 was a certified Industrial School. They merged with the Protestant Orphan Home to form Summerhill Homes in 1946 and later Youth Horizons...