Report on Female Factory

Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
7 January 1848

FEMALE FACTORY

State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on the 1st January, 1848

Under colonial sentence, 22

Not under colonial sentence, 25

In hospital, 17

Lunatics, 21

Total number of women, 85

Children in health, 16

Children in hospital, 2

Total number of children, 48


See Original: “FEMALE FACTORY. State of the Female Factory, Parramatta, on the 1st January, 1848,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Friday 7 January 1848, p.3