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Berrechid

Berrechid (Arabic: برشيد) is a town and municipality in Berrechid Province of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. It recorded a population of 136,634 inhabitants in the 2014 Moroccan census.[1] At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 89,830 people living in 18,808 households.[2]

"Berrechid" is also a metonym for Berrechid Hospital, which first opened as a European-style asylum in 1919 under French colonial rule and was the first place for psychiatric treatment in Morocco.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "POPULATION LÉGALE DES RÉGIONS, PROVINCES, PRÉFECTURES, MUNICIPALITÉS, ARRONDISSEMENTS ET COMMUNES DU ROYAUME D'APRÈS LES RÉSULTATS DU RGPH 2014" (in Arabic and French). High Commission for Planning, Morocco. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004" (PDF). Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  3. ^ Stein, D. (2000-11-28). "Views of mental illness in Morocco: Western medicine meets the traditional symbolic". CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association journal. 163 (11): 1468–1470. ISSN 0820-3946. PMC 80417. PMID 11192655.
  4. ^ Corfield, Justin (2013). "Morocco". In Scull, Andrew (ed.). Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide. SAGE Publishing. p. 555. ISBN 9781483388991.
  5. ^ Laboudi, Fouad; Ragoug, Allal; Mehssani, Jamal (June 2016). "Psychiatry in Morocco during the French Protectorate" (PDF). International Journal of Science and Research. 5 (6). doi:10.21275/v5i6.NOV163961.