The period covered by this punishment book is 3.02 years. With a total of 1710 entries, this represents an average of 596 entries per year. Further, with approximately 180 school days per year, this represents an average of 3.1 canings for each school day in the period examined. One of the shortcomings of this data set is that is does not cover the entire school life of any boy, and therefore a complete recidivism study is not possible.
The 594 uniquely identifiable student names indicate that the boys who were caned were caned 2.9 times each on average. Of course, this figure is misleading as the vast majority of students were only caned once or twice in this period, with others being punished multiple times. This is shown in the punishment distribution chart. The average number of strokes given was 2.0.