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INFORMATION RELATING TO INSURANCE AND THRIFT 



III. Companies Insuring against Hail 1916. 



Net Premiums Indemnities Expenses 



Acatiia Fire ....... 



British Crown 



British America 



Canada Haii 



Canada Security 



Western Underwriters of 



Canada Security 



Canada Weather .... 



Connecticut 



Dominion Fire 



Excess Insurance Company 



Great North 



Hartford 



Home Insurance Company 

 Nova Scotia Fire Under- 

 writers 



North Western National . 

 Rochester Underwriters . 

 vSt. Paul Mutual Hail . . 

 United Assurance Company 



Westchester Fire 



Winnipeg Fire Underwriters 



Total 1916 . . . 

 Corresponding totals for 

 1915 



622 



112,416 



46,124 



44.171 

 233.320 



30,195 

 39,680 

 30,170 



2,507 

 46,322 



69,307 



27.35T 



163,897 



57.03S 

 56,258 

 35,388 

 110,936 

 42,625 

 61,770 

 27.253 



nil 



101,721 

 39.786 

 42,782 



180,792 



18,365 

 36,284 



13,988 

 1.528 



37.327 



36,858 



29,480 



148,987 



48,254 

 52,270 



30,478 



89.574 

 31,066 



73.73T 

 16,713 



93 



45.718 



14,000 estimate 



13,200 



54,212 



5.048 

 11,700 

 10,000 estimate 



668 

 14,00*0 estimate 

 15.036 



8,223 



46,435 



14.492 



16,800 estimate 



11,764 



33.294 

 11.936 



18,300 estimate 

 6,821 



:^. 237.350 1,029,984 351.740 

 1,119,816 855,643 



GERMANY. 



I. THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY HAIL, IN WURTEMBURG IN 191 6. — Wallman's Versicher- 

 ungs- Zeitschrift, 51st year, No. 89, Vol. II, Berlin, 16 August 1917. 



Hail fell on thirty-seven days in 1916, and on thirty-three of these 

 days it injured crops. All districts were attacked except those of Besig- 

 heim, Neckarsulm, Tuttlingen and Aalen, and 624 communes and parts of 

 communes in the sixty districts. In ten districts and fifty-nine communes 

 the damage caused by hail was such that there was an official valuation 

 of losses with a view to a remitment of the land tax. The data as to los- 

 ses thus obtained are as follows. The whole area which suffered measured 



