Evening News, London, 6 May 1937 Hon. E. Cadogan as the Chairman Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, told the House of Commons today that the Hon. Edward Cadogan, CBE, former MP would be chairman of the committee to inquire into the administration of corporal punishment. The complete list would be announced as soon as […]
Boy In Tears at Portland Court-Martial
Two youths, both with the rank of “boy” aboard H.M.S. Nelson, were at a court-martial on H.M.S. Titania at Portland yesterday ordered 12 strokes with the birch. They were accused of an offence aboard H.M.S. Nelson. The Rev. D. Bunt, chaplain, said one boy’s character deteriorated after he found his mother was in a mental […]
Learnt His Mother Was In Mental Home
Western Morning News, Plymouth, 7 November 1936 Boy disillusioned From our own correspondent Portland, Friday. When two boys appeared before a court-martial in H.M.S. Titania at Portland to-day, on certain charges, the Chaplain of H.M.S. Nelson, flagship of the Home Fleet, in which they were serving, told the Court that one of the boys was […]
Boys Laugh, When Caned by Women, to ‘Keep Their Dignity’
Daily Mirror, London, 14 April 1936, p.4 Easter Talkies Men Teachers Demanded for Them “If he acknowledged that he would have lost the dignity and recognition of his own importance.””In schools where headmistresses inflict corporal punishment on boys of eight or nine, the lads all go out laughing at the punishment they receive because not […]
Le’ster Recorder Orders Boy To Be Birched
Leicester Mercury, 6 January 1936 From Court To The Whipping Post Le’ster Recorder Orders Boy To Be Birched Lad Who Associated With Older Youths In Shopbreaking Others Bound Over (extracts) The Recorder, at Leicester Quarter Sessions this afternoon, ordered that a 15-year-old boy should be taken straight from the court and birched. JOHN LESLIE SWINFIELD, […]
The Caning of Girls
British Medical Journal, 16 February 1935 Correspondence It is impossible to believe that the medical department of the Board has not formed any opinion on a medical question so obviously affecting the health of the school child, and it seems to me to be very curious that when so many memoranda and annual reports are […]
Corporal Punishment for Girls 4
British Medical Journal, London, 19 January 1935, p.130 Correspondence A few months ago two little girls, smiling happily, entered my consulting room, one of them having some trivial complaint. When I spoke to the child, who was 10 years of age, she suddenly burst into hysterical and causeless sobbing. Evidently her emotions were on a […]
Corporal Punishment for Girls3
I am no advocate of corporal punishment, and favour every other form of correction being tried first before recourse to this brutal method, which is more suitable for creatures that can only be made to feel through their skin. If the corporal punishment of girls is as rare as I think it is, the question […]
Corporal Punishment for Girls 2
British Medical Journal, London, 5 January 1935, p.39 Correspondence I remember on several occasions as a teacher inquiring of girls of 12 and 13 who arrived at school crying why they were crying, and receiving the reply: “Mi father (or mother)’s just given me t’belt.” Further inquiries revealed the fact that the belt was practically […]
Corporal Punishment for Girls1
British Medical Journal, London, 5 January 1935, p.38 Correspondence Corporal Punishment for Girls I feel very strongly that Dr. Kitching did not go far enough, and that the time has come when caning or birching of any child under sixteen years, whether by policemen, school teachers, or parents, should be illegal. Our sailors and soldiers, […]