Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No. 1 . . .

1906 - Cholera Suspected - 'A succinct résumé of cholera manifestations in 1906 has reference chiefly to India, where the mortality from this disease was higher in 1906 than in any year since 1900. The disease also prevailed in the Philippines (in some places due to use by Chinese of human excrement as garden manure on the banks of a river), and in some parts of Russia.

Some alarm was caused in October, 1906, by the arrival at Queenstown of the ‘‘Peruviana”’ from Rotterdam, via Penarth, having two of her crew dead and four others seriously ill with gastro-intestinal symptoms. No evidence was found for the diagnosis of Asiatic cholera: but several of the crew had partaken freely of mussels while at Penarth; it was said that these mussels had been collected from piles covered with copper.' - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. [1018] [499] Jan.-Jun. 1909.

1906 - The Peruviana's Crew - Two Buried At Sea - The steamer Peruviana left Queenstown Harbour early this morning, and buried at sea the remains of the two members of the crew who died rather suddenly while the vessel was on her way from Penarth. The four men landed last evening and placed in the intercepting hospital are progressing favourably. After the burial of the men the Peruviana returned to Queenstown.' - Evening Express [135] [361] 16th October 1906.

1906 - Death and Sickness on Board Not Caused by Cholera - ' The Customs authorities at Queenstown have released the steamer Peruviana from quarantine, having received assurances that the deaths of the two men and the sickness of the four others on board were not caused by cholera. The vessel will proceed to Boston.' - Weekly Mail [067] [361] 20th October 1906.