Part 11: Insurance and Thrift 



BELGIUM 



PROGRESS OF LIVESTOCK INSURANCE IN BELGIUM. 



By way of completion of the information already supplied (i) on the 

 development of the Belgian professional unions of syndicates for the purchase 

 and sale of farm requisites and of rural banks, we shall give a few statistics 

 relating to livestock insurance from the last official report of the associations 

 of agricultural interest, published by the Department of Agriculture, relat- 

 ing to the end of 191 1. 



§ I. Compulsory wvestock insurance. 



In West Flanders livestock insurance has been compulsory since 1837, 

 and entitles to compensation for losses due to slaughter of livestock ordered 

 by the public authorities and the rejection of the meat as unsuited for con- 

 sumption. 



In 1 91 1 the business done by the West Flanders Compulsory Livestock 

 Insurance Fund was as follows : 



Number of Head of Livestock Insured. 



Homed Cattle, three months or more old 290,017 



Horses, one year or more old 40,753 



Sheep, three months or more old 16,077 



Mules, one year or more old 2,083 



Asses, one year or more old ^13 



Total . . . 349.343 

 (i) Sec Bulletin of Economic and Social Inlelli^ence, May, 1914. 



