WW2 files show UK schoolgirl VD "menace"

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30776369.htm

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - World War Two was at its height and British officials worried about a menace loose on the streets of London -- runaway schoolgirls infecting American GIs with venereal disease.

A yellowing file of records released this week at Britain's National Archive shows that officials were concerned about a tide of "semi-delinquent" girls who were escaping from correctional boarding schools to head for the big city.

Such girls were "a greater danger than the prostitute proper in regard to spreading venereal disease," a Scotland Yard police official wrote to the Home Office.

"If all schools would take immediate steps to notify the Commissioner by telegram or telephone when a girl who may come to London absconds, we could round up a larger number of them promptly," the police official wrote.

[Fenris]

1. This is the greatest story I've ever read.

[godhatesrepublicans]

2. Now let's see Spielberg make THIS into a WWII movie...

I see Tom Hanks as the heroic army doctor...

[mdmc]

3. lol

[Vidar]

4. The same army that's stripping them of their armor now.