Hi All, Below is a couple of paragraphs from “A Colonial City High and Low Life – Selected Journalism of Marcus Clarke, Edited by L T Hergenban, published University of Queensland Press, 1972 '… sees a file of women. There are seventy-four in the Home. Some are young and healthy, and pretty looking-these with children mostly. Some are hideous and repulsive and dirty. These young women “want places,” but the child is a bar to that. Respectable people don’t like to engage a servant who has been obliged to go to the Home because she has a young illegitimate child to support. So that by and bye the child is put out to a dry nurse at one of the baby farms in the suburbs and dies after a little while as is the custom. … … The women have a ward of their own – a sight worth seeing and not easy to forget. … The inmates must have all beds made, children washed and rooms cleaned by ten o’clock. No meals in the sleeping room. Drunkenness punished with dismissal. Lights out at half past eight in winter and nine in summer. Nobody allowed to go out without a pass from the matron or to stop out after six in the evening. Must attend religious worship on Sunday. Meal hours – Breakfast, seven to eight a.m.; dinner, one to two p.m.; tea, five to six p.m. Rations – bread, meat, tea, soup, with certain modifications in case of need. The inmates are expected to work. …" Cheers Anne