Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
1 January 1842
State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on Tuesday, 28th December 1841
First class, 530; second ditto (nursing children) 152; third ditto 270; in solitary confinement 25; in hospital 28; confined by order of the matron, 9; total number of women 1014; total number of children 279.
See Original: “State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on Tuesday, 28th December 1841,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Saturday 1 January 1842, p.3
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