Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
16 October 1841
State of the Factory, 12th October
First class, 461; second class (nursing children) 150; third class, 243; in solitary confinement, 13; in hospital, 22; Total number of women, 889; Total number of children, 316.
See Original: “State of the Factory,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Saturday 16 October 1841, p.2
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