Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
10 August 1832
STATE OF THE FEMALE FACTORY, PARRAMATTA, on the 4th August, 1832
Under Colonial sentence: 152
Solitary confinement: 0
Confined by order of the Committee: 1
Nursing Children: 86
Old and Infirm: 9
Monitresses, servants, cooks, &c: 16
In hospital: 10
Sick in Factory: 3
Assigned, wanting to be withdrawn: 67
Number assignable: 69
Total Number of Women: 44 [sic 413]
Children under one year: 49
Children under two years: 35
Children under three years: 31
Total Number of Children: 151 [sic, 115]
State of the gaol this morning:
Trial: 61
Death: 5
Remanded: 1
Transportation: 4
Bail: 2
Confines: 10
Labour: 17
Iron-gangs: 21
Road ditto: 1
To be dealt with: 19
Factory: 13
Debtors: 14
Total: 169
Three men are under sentence to be hanged to-morrow morning.
See Original: “State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on the 4th August, 1832,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Friday 10 August 1832, p.3
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