I am no advocate of corporal punishment, and favour every other form of correction being tried first before recourse to this brutal method, which is more suitable for creatures that can only be made to feel through their skin. If the corporal punishment of girls is as rare as I think it is, the question […]

British Medical Journal, London, 5 January 1935, p.39 Correspondence I remember on several occasions as a teacher inquiring of girls of 12 and 13 who arrived at school crying why they were crying, and receiving the reply: “Mi father (or mother)’s just given me t’belt.” Further inquiries revealed the fact that the belt was practically […]

British Medical Journal, London, 5 January 1935, p.38 Correspondence Corporal Punishment for Girls I feel very strongly that Dr. Kitching did not go far enough, and that the time has come when caning or birching of any child under sixteen years, whether by policemen, school teachers, or parents, should be illegal. Our sailors and soldiers, […]

British Medical Journal, London, 22 December 1934, p.1178 Correspondence A Plea for the Exemption of Girls SIR,-I would be grateful if you would publish the attached correspondence with a view to finding out what is the opinion of the profession on the question whether the caning of girls can be justified on medical grounds. I […]

Daily Mail, London, 20 February 1934, p.11 Council May Order An Inquiry From Our Special Correspondent ALLEGATIONS concerning the caning of a large number of scholars at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School for Boys here, which have been made before the Barnet Urban District Council, are now a topic of local discussion.BARNET, Herts, Monday. To-day the […]

Belfast News-Letter, 30 March 1930 Ulster House of Commons Power to Cane Boys in Borstal Institution. The Minister of Home Affairs [Sir Dawson Bates], moving the second reading of the Criminal Law and Prevention of Crime (Amendment) Bill, said it dealt with two distinct subjects. The first was the time limit for prosecutions for offences […]

Daily Mail, London, 24 April 1929, p.9 . Smoking Boy Case Again in Court. Judge and “Taking it Like a Man.” CASE. — The King v. Justices of Newport, Shropshire, ex parte Wright. COURT. — Kings Bench Divisional Court. JUDGES. — The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) and Justices Avory and Swift. COUNSEL. — For the Justices: Mr. Ronald […]