Part II: Insurance and Thrift 



RUSSIA. 



THE BUSINESS DONE BY FINNISH MUTUAL SOCli:TlES FOR 

 INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE AND MORTAI.ITY AMONG LIVE 

 STOCK. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCE: 

 Rapport sur l'etat des associations de baillage et de paroisses pour l'assurance 



CONTRE L'INCENDIE ET CONTRE LA MORTALITE DES BE3TIAUX DANS L'ANNEE I914 (RepOri 



on the State of Leasing and Parochial Associations for Insurance against Fire and Mortality 

 among Live Stock in 1914) Fiulands Officielle Statistik. Helsingfors igi6. 



§ I. Societies ixsi^ring agaixst fire. 



The number of societies for mutual insurance against fire having a 

 sphere of activity less in extent than a government was 283 in 1914 as 

 against 287 in 1910 and 265 in 1895. The societies were distributed as fol- 

 lows among the various governments : Njdand 11, Abo and Bjorneborg 

 42, Tavastehus 10, Viborg 50, St. Michel 23, Kuopio 30, Vasa 73, Ule4- 

 borg 44. The total value insured by these societies was 984,345,554 francs 

 at the end of 1913 and 1,037,355,912 francs at the end of 1914. 



At the end of I9i4the value of the insured property in Finland reached 

 about 4,398,000,000 francs without taking into account reinsurance effected 

 by other societies. The following figures show the distribution of insured 

 sums among the various groups of societies. In order that the develop- 

 ment may be more clearly perceived the data referring to 1897, 1900, 1905 

 and 1910 are given. 



Table I. — Vahie insured at the end of certain years. 



leasing and parochial societies 

 Finnish stock companies . . . 

 Foreign » « ... 



Russian » > ... 



1897 

 frcs 



1900 

 frcs 



r,arge mutual societies 539,256,206 659,952,105 1,087,648,105 1,618,884.087 2,025,175,034 



1905 

 frcs 



1910 

 frcs 



1914 

 frcs 



Total 



352,511,270 436,737,520 569,006,331! 778,737,748 1,037,335,912 



261,365,311; 395,246,061! 385,769,915' 598,582,310 816,517,268 



190,697,825 248,403,933; 219,171,739 269,796,891 254,000,000 



160,000,000: 170,000,000! i6o,ooo,ooo| 245,000,000! 265,000,000 



1,503,830,612' 1,910,339,619 2,421,596,090! 3,511,001,036 4,398,048,214 



