The regime referred to in the above post is a great deal earlier, and in Scotland, which Country certainly did have a reputation for fairly severe corporal punishment of both males and females.
I recall in 1962 in Scotland giving a lift to school to the teenage daughter of the B&B I’d stayed in who had missed her bus, and being very shocked when she quite matter of factly announced that if we didn’t get there in time she’d get belted! As a rather shy 20 year old I didn’t seek elucidation of this, I just drove fast! I know now that it would almost certainly have been on her hands, but even so somewhat harsh, and perhaps indicative of the Scottish outlook on CP then and possibly earlier.