One hundred years from Bernard Sperks documents (veterinarian of District Brčko) on livestock insurance in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

lthough some articles on the draft proposals for insurance of animals have been considered unsustainable and professionally unjustified nowadays, it
is evident that even a hundred years ago special attention was paid to it so that the authors interested in establishing the order into livestock production did write numerous papers. Recognizing the breeding of the worthless livestock, failure to seek veterinary assistance in a timely manner, failure to report on livestock diseases and deaths, and failure to always bury the carcasses, J(B) Sperk wanted to solve the problem by introducing widespread obligatory insurance of livestock, be it as cheap and simple as possible. As the payment of insurance depends on the obligations of animal owners (to seek veterinary interventions in time, to register diseases and animal death in time, to bury the carcasses, etc.) Sperk entertained an idea to direct the money flow from the newly established cattle insurance fund to livestock development in Bosnia and Herzegovina.