One interesting feature here in Victoria is that some schools – especially Catholic schools for some reason in my experience – often recorded corporal punishment in the ‘Accident Book’ – a similar register that was meant to be used to record any injury that occurred in a school. I’m not sure if it was just more convenient to have one book, or if it was some attempt to pretend things weren’t really happening, or what was going on.
I’d been planning on posting the following image at some stage in the near future – this seems a good place. It’s taken from a British teacher’s magazine of 1901, and is part of an article where a school inspector is giving advice to teachers: