Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
15 January 1842
State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on Tuesday, 11th January, 1842
First class, 540; Second ditto (nursing Children) 154; third ditto, 280; in Solitary Confinement, 24; in Hospital, 31; confined by order of the Matron, 2. Total number of Women, 1040. Total number of Children, 303.
See Original: “State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on Tuesday, 11th January, 1842,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Saturday 15 January 1842, p.2
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