Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
21 November 1842
STATE OF THE FEMALE FACTORY, at Parramatta on the 1st October, 1842
Under colonial sentence, 103; not under colonial sentence, 1021; in solitary confinement, 4; in hospital, 31; confined by order of the Matron, 21. Total number of women, 1182. Total number of children, 283.—Ibid. [Government Gazette]
See Original: “State of the Female Factory, at Parramatta on the 1st October, 1842,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Monday 21 November 1842, p.2
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