Theology, 65
Canon law, 3
Jurisprudence 232 [156]
Notary, 15
Medicine, 395
Pharmacy, 102
Practitioners of medicine, 72
Practitioners of pharmacy, 19
Midwives, 12
By means of the incomplete data which precede, and it is a fact that
they do not exist in more exact form or of more recent date in the
Ministry of the Colonies, it is easy to recognize the great results
which can be obtained in regard to making reading and writing general
among the Indians, and in seeing that they learn the Castilian
language, for only a very small fraction of them know it very
superficially.
Some advance has been made since the establishment of the normal
school. But there is still much to do, and it is necessary that so
crying a need be considered with the haste and decision that this
important matter demands.
The establishment of schools of arts and crafts will also be very
convenient and useful, and truly they will be productive of great
results. Everything which contributes to the propagation of the
teaching of industries, to the creation of superintendents and
assistants of public works, master-masons, and all that relates to
these matters, ought to be encouraged, and must be an advantageous
and efficacious blessing to the natives of that country, who are
extremely skilful in all the imitative arts and crafts, rather than
for the studies which demand the employment of the superior faculties
of the intelligence. [157]