Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
27 July 1832
STATE OF THE FEMALE FACTORY PARRAMATTA, on the 21st instant: —
Under Colonial sentence: 160
Solitary confinement: 27
Nursing Children: 86
Old and Infirm: 8
Monitresses, servants, cooks, &c: 16
In hospital: 14
Sick in Factory: 6
Assigned, wanting to be withdrawn: 94
Number assignable: 97
Total Number of Women: 481
Children under one year: 48
Children under two years: 32
Children under three years: 32
Total Number of Children: 112
See Original: “State of the Female Factory Parramatta, on the 21st instant,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW: 1824 – 1848), Friday 27 July 1832, p.3
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