From the Catford Central School for Boys, London, England.
A Study and Analysis of Caning Entries from the Schools Punishment Book
Entries dated Feb. 20, 1953 through Feb. 27, 1956
One object of this study is to determine whether there were any statistically meaningful trends in how the practice was applied. Simply by perusing the pages, the punishments seemed rather random but indeed there was, at least to some degree, unwritten policy in how offenses were treated.
The punishment book contains 90 pages, with 594 boys caned in 1,710 separate incidents. The boys range in age from 11 to 16 years old. All punishments were executed by caning with a minimum of one stroke and a maximum of six strokes recorded per offense. These were applied to the seat 90% of the time and to the hands 10% of the time.