With respect to the 'duties of women', I hunted down the reference from an earlier entry:
December 1783: Stonehouse Barracks taken over by Plymouth Division. First guard mounted on 5 October 1783. Order to take over barracks given by the Admiralty on 2 December 1783. Officers’ quarters short; subalterns sent in a list of those wishing to live in and those wishing to lodge out. Subalterns ordered to “double up in quarters” in 1784. Dogs not allowed in the barracks. Officers’ servants lodged in the garrets above their masters’ apartments. One Barrack-woman allowed per room. ‘They were to do their washing in the salt water tank at rest of the barracks and not with fresh water.’
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Date: Jan. 5th, 2013 04:10 (UTC)From:December 1783: Stonehouse Barracks taken over by Plymouth Division. First guard mounted on 5 October 1783. Order to take over barracks given by the Admiralty on 2 December 1783. Officers’ quarters short; subalterns sent in a list of those wishing to live in and those wishing to lodge out. Subalterns ordered to “double up in quarters” in 1784. Dogs not allowed in the barracks. Officers’ servants lodged in the garrets above their masters’ apartments. One Barrack-woman allowed per room. ‘They were to do their washing in the salt water tank at rest of the barracks and not with fresh water.’