Eric Blair, or George Orwell as he is better known by his pen name, mentions being caned for bed-wetting at St. Cyprians, his prep school.
This was featured, amongst other ‘horrors’, in his rather polemical essay “Such, such were the joys.”
Apparently, the young Blair began wetting his bed within about 2 or 3 weeks of his arrival at the school, and this, at the time, was looked upon as wilful naughtiness.
After about three episodes, he was warned by the headmaster’s wife, in front of a rather masculine-looking lady visitor in a riding habit, that if he transgressed again, he would be caned.
The lady visitor looking shocked, expressed herself in the matter by intoning,”I should think so!”
In due course, he was.