Part II: Insurance and Thrift 



SWITZERLAND. 



AGRICUIvTURAL INSURANCE IN 1915. 



oFFiciAi, source: 



Rapport du Bureau Suisse des Assurances sur les entreprises privees en mati^re 

 d'assurance en Suisse en 1915 {Report of the Swiss Office of Insurance on Private Insur- 

 ing Enterprisc-s in Switzerland in 1915). Published in accordance with the resolution of the 

 Swiss Federal Council on 13 August 1917. 30th year. A. Francke, Berne, 191 7. 



The federal report on private insuring enterprises in Switzerland in 

 1915 is the thirtieth of its kind. It concerns life insurance and insurance 

 against accidents, fires, etc, as well as agricultural insurance, insurance 

 against mortality among live stock and against losses occasioned by hail. 

 Insurance of this last kind is organized in Switzerland only by private com- 

 panies, while the insurance of live stock is undertaken by private enterprises 

 and by pubUc cantonal institutions with which, in the case of some cantons, 

 owners are compelled by the law to insure their live stock. Where the two 

 latter kinds of agricultural insurance are concerned the private companies 

 have completely the legal form of mutual societies. 



As in previous years (i) we will deal with agricultural insurance in 

 Switzerland on the basis of the data and indications supplied by this publica- 

 tion of the Federal Office of Insurance. We will thus obtain an idea of 

 the position of insurance of this kind in 191 5. 



§ r. Insuranxe against Mortality amoxg Live Stock. 



Three mutual societies — La mutnelle chevaline Suisse of Lausanne, the 

 Badische Pferde-V ersicheriings-Anstalt a. G. of Carlsruhe and the Garantie 

 jedJrale of Paris — and one stock company — the Perleberger Versicherungs- 



(i) See our issue (Monthly Bulletin of Economic and Social Intelligence) for .August 1913 

 and our issues for December 191 4 and November 191 5. 



