1914-18 punishment is frequent 118 canings average 23 per year all one stroke apart from five occasion when this rose to two strokes.

1919 number drops to four canings

Throughout the 1920s the average is 6.8 per year (64 total) In the first World War 118 Canings during the second war none, this is put down to the fact Coventry was heavily bombed and the records could have continued in another place. It resumed in 1945 with only three canings for the rest of the 40s

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