INFORMATION RELATING TO INSURANCE AND THRIFT 6l 



The increase is due, among other causes, to remissness caused by the 

 war in the superintendence of the inspecting veterinary surgeons, employed 

 by the .State for the campaign against tuberculosis. 



b) Aphthous fever. The number of deaths caused by this disease have 

 increased from the forty cases reported last year to 124. 



The increase in the deaths from osteopathyrosis (fragility of bones) 

 is even more pronounced, their number actually surpassing that for 1914 

 by 100 per cent. The number of indemnities paid in cases of general dropsy 

 has increased, as compared with that of 1914, by 200 per cent. The 

 cause of these diseases is connected with feeding and should be looked for 

 in the insufficient feeding which has resulted on the scarcity of concentrat- 

 ed forage, especially in the case of young animals. 



2. INSURANCE AGAINST HAIL IN THE PRINCIPALITY OF HOHENZOLLERN IN 

 1915-1916. — Mitteihtngen der Centralstelle fur Landwittschaft itnd Gewerbe in Hohenzol- 

 lern. Sigmaringen, 5 April 191 6. 



The following table shows the development of insurance against hail 

 in the principality of Hohenzollern as a consequence of the preferential 

 contract concluded at Berlin from 15 to 23 May igoo by the Provincial 

 Commission {Landesaiisschuss) with the Mutual Association for Insurance 

 against Hail of North Germany : 



Administrative Sphere 



Sigmaringen. . . 



Hechingen. . . . 



Gammertingen. . . 



Haigerloch. . . . 



1915 3-III 3-739 5,670,477 56,307 10,909 



1914 2,693 3,236 4,437,419 - 9,643 



Increase in 1915. . 418 483 1,233,058 — 1,266 



As regards the number of claims met and the amount of indemnities, 

 it should be noted that 1915, like the two preceding years, was among the 

 most unfortunate years ever encountered in the principality of Hohenzol- 

 lern. The following are the figures of the balance-sheet which refer to the 

 claims met ; 



(i) I hectare = 2 acres i rood 35.383 poles. 



