Corporal punishment. Returns from each gaol and house of correction in England and Wales, and Ireland, of all cases in which corporal punishment has been inflicted by orders of the visiting justices, courts of assizes, and quarter sessions, from 6 August 1861 to the present time; and, of all cases in which corporal punishment by whipping has been inflicted under the authority of acts 10 & 11 Vict. c. 82, 13 & 14 Vict. c. 37, or either of them, and the age of each person punished, from 16 May 1862 to the present time; &c [electronic resource].