Peter
i have just found this info dont know if its any good ---- Cholera Deaths in Castletown, 1832
List of persons buried in Malew, with dates, in the cholera epidemic of 1832
Library Ref MD 287 (accession 6378)
See also: a published list of these names in IOMFHS Journal Vol XVII No 1 Februrary 1995 pp 13-14
‘Cure for cholera’
‘One teaspoonfull of salt - One teaspoonfull cayenne peppr - Half a pint of boiling water mixed and taken soon as possible’. Undated handwritten remedy, probably compiled prior to the 1866 outbreak.
Library Ref Ms 1592 A