1950 a revival average 4.4 then from the 60s an increase in frequency and severity between 2 and four strokes. Two strokes beco0mes the new minimum.
For those that think girls are all sugar and spice, offences – leaving school without permission, general disobedience, rudeness, defacing ceiling, throwing stones, striking the headmistress, hiding coat of a delicate girl, impatience, Truancy, forging letter from parents. I feel Jenny would agree , the punishments at this school were very lenient to what we would both have expected to receive.
The only and last entry in the book is a single caning of a boy, the school went co-ed just prior to abolition.