, incest, or any other infamous crime against nature,
and to castrate every male prisoner who committed sodomy or other
infamous crime while in prison; but only after trial and conviction for
the crime before the District Court, and they could by a majority vote
chloroform any dangerous criminal that showed homicidal tendencies.

I saw no red-light sign of houses of prostitution, and on making
inquiries I was informed that there were no houses of prostitution in
Eurasia, for as soon as information was given to any Magistrate the law
required him or her to issue an order for the arrest of the female
practicing prostitution, and on conviction she was committed to the
female reformatory for five years, subject to parole after one year,
and for a second offense of the same crime she was deprived of the
power to propagate the race. Gentle reader, don't think that this law
is cruel or unjust, for the amount of evil that a depraved woman can
commit in spreading, that loathsome disease, syphilis, is incalculable,
and Christ when he told the woman that had committed adultery that he
did not condemn her also added: "Go and sin no more." A committee of
six physicians, three males and three females, in the service of the
Government in every district were required by law to examine every
person desiring marriage and if the person examined was affected with
tuberculosis, cancer, scrofula, leprosy, syphilis, or any other
loathsome or contagious disease, then that person was denied a license
to marry; and also if they were mentally unsound.

Under the law no person was allowed to marry until twenty-one years of
age, male and female, and any person violating this law was punished by
one year's imprisonment at hard labor in the district in which this law
had been violated. In no case was a Government physician permitted to
receive any compensation for services rendered as physician, for they
were the servants of the people, elected by the people in every
district and paid by the Government a salary fixed by law, and no bonds
were required of them or of any public official, for the people elected
every public official with the exception of officers in the Army and
Navy, who were elected by the soldiers up to the grade of Colonel, and
the Brigadiers and Major-Generals were appointed by the Minister of
War, was was Commander-in-Chief and directed all the operations of the
Army and Navy in war, and also the agents of the Department of
Infor