3. Criminal jurisdiction is delegated to Pashas
and Cadis by the Sultan, except of offenses committed
against, or in conjunction with, French nationals
and those under French protection. Such cases
come before the tribunals of the French Protectorate.
The object of the Protectorate has been, on the one
hand, to give to the children of French colonists
in Morocco the same education as they would have received
at elementary and secondary schools in France; on the
other, to provide the indigenous population with a
system of education that shall give to the young Moroccans
an adequate commercial or manual training, or prepare
them for administrative posts, but without interfering
with their native customs or beliefs.
Before 1912 there existed in Morocco only a few small
schools supported by the French Legation at Tangier
and by the Alliance Francaise, and a group of Hebrew
schools in the Mellahs, maintained by the Universal
Israelite Alliance.
1912. Total number of schools 37
1918. " " " " 191
1912. Total number of pupils 3006
1918. " " " " 21,520
1912. Total number of teachers 61
1918. " " " " 668
In addition to the French and indigenous schools,
sewing-schools have been formed for the native girls
and have been exceptionally successful.
Moslem colleges have been founded at Rabat and Fez
in order to supplement the native education of young
Mahometans of the upper classes, who intend to take
up wholesale business or banking, or prepare for political,
judicial or administrative posts under the Sultan’s
government. The course lasts four years and comprises:
Arabic, French, mathematics, history, geography, religious
(Mahometan) instruction, and the law of the Koran.
The “Ecole Superieure de la langue arabe et
des dialectes berberes” at Rabat receives European
and Moroccan students. The courses are Arabic,
the Berber dialects, Arab literature, ethnography,
administrative Moroccan law, Moslem law, Berber customary
law.
The Protectorate has established 113 medical centres
for the native population, ranging from simple dispensaries
and small native infirmaries to the important hospitals
of Rabat, Fez, Meknez, Marrakech, and Casablanca.
Mobile sanitary formations supplied with light motor
ambulances travel about the country, vaccinating,
making tours of sanitary inspection, investigating
infected areas, and giving general hygienic education
throughout the remoter regions.
Native patients treated in 1916 over
900,000
" " " " 1917
" 1,220,800
Night-shelters in towns. Every town is provided
with a shelter for the indigent wayfarers so numerous
in Morocco. These shelters are used as disinfection
centres, from which suspicious cases are sent to quarantine
camp at the gates of the towns.
