Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
7 August 1847
State of the Female Factory, at Parramatta, on 1st of August, 1847
Under colonial sentence, 49
Not under colonial sentence, 26
In hospital, 19
Lunatics, 21
Total number of women, 115
Children in health, 42
Children in hospital, 1
Total number of Children, 46 [this total is incorrect]
See Original: “LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. State of the Female Factory, at Parramatta, on 1st of August, 1847,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Saturday 7 August 1847, p.3
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