Name not reported
A person held at Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippine Islands, died in late 1906 after receiving a cholera inoculation in an experiment run by the Bureau of Science to protect people held there against cholera. Reports put the number of deaths at ten, with one giving thirteen. Governor General Smith's dispatch to the War Department said a visitor may have misplaced a bottle of plague culture with the anti-cholera serum, and investigating physicians said the virus had been contaminated with bubonic plague. Dr. William R. Moulden, a former resident physician at the prison, doubted that the inoculation caused the deaths and called them an accident. A Filipino committee found that no one was responsible for the accident.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident (disputed). Investigating physicians and a committee of scientists said the anti-cholera serum was contaminated with plague culture, and Governor-General Smith attributed this to a misplaced bottle, while former prison physician Dr. William R. Moulden doubted the inoculation caused the deaths.
Reported by: physicians investigating the deaths; committee of scientists; Governor-General Smith, in a dispatch to the War Department; Secretary of War Taft's annual report; Dr. William R. Moulden; committee of Filipinos.
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