The long period spent by the unit in Brazil went almost unscathed by infections, with only a case of yellow fever on board, but in the Rio de la Plata estuary there were four cases of cholera, two of which were lethal.
Great were the sacrifices of personnel on board for the precarious hygienic conditions of life particularly severe in unhealthy climates and exposed to infectious diseases in contacts with local populations: health statistics denounced that mortality (excluding accidents at work and losses in combat) that normally in these years did not exceed the 3 per thousand of the total strength of the Navy (a figure already incredibly high compared to the present day) as a result of events in Brazil, rose to 9,75 per thousand.
Source: Military Navy
