THE BURNHAM INQUIRY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11972, 15 September 1906, Page 5

THE BURNHAM INQUIRY.

The Medical Officers' Idea of Punishment. - He Favours the Triangles and Shot Drill. (Pat United Prew Associatioa\ CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. At th© Burnham inquiry to-day, Dr Symes, medical officer, said that more medicine was used at Burnham than at the Deaf and Dumb Institution, though th« Burnham boys were in better physical health. He advocated the sub-matron matron being a trained nurse, in order to be able to sift the serious from the trivial, and malingering cases. The accommodation for a hundred boys, half young men, was totally inadequate. The reformatory should be on a ferttle island like Kawau, not on poor soil like Burnham. He preferred a training ship to a land reformatory. The punishment of smaller boys was hot too serious, but that for the older boys was insufficient, and they should be secured to a table or a triangle when undergoing corporal punishment, which should be swift not prolonged. He favoured shot drill and other forma of punishment inflicted at naval and military places at Home for adoption at Burnham.

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