The extracts from the Birmingham punishment book are fascinating, but I wonder whether they give a misleading impression of the actual prevalence of corporal punishment in that school.
The reason for this conjecture (and it is, of course, a conjecture) comes from my own experience in primary school. My school was in a different part of the country — Willesden, in North-West London — but I was there in the period 1954–1961, not too long after the final page of the punishment book shown above. Corporal punishment was used when I was in the junior (rather than the infants) school, for the four years 1957–1961