Name not reported
A person held at Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippine Islands, was one of about ten people who died in late 1906 after receiving experimental cholera inoculations ordered at the prison. Governor-General Smith's dispatch to the War Department attributed the deaths to a bottle of plague culture misplaced into the serum, and a committee of scientists said attenuated plague cultures had been mixed into the cholera serum. A Filipino committee found that no one was responsible for the accident and recommended provision for the families of the dead. Dr. William R. Moulden, a former resident physician at the prison, doubted that the inoculation caused the deaths.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Investigating physicians and Governor-General Smith attributed the deaths to plague culture mixed into the anti-cholera serum, while former prison physician Dr. William R. Moulden doubted the inoculation caused them and called them an accident.
Reported by: Dr. William R. Moulden; Philippine authorities; physicians investigating the deaths; Bureau of Science investigators (outside investigators); Governor-General Smith; Secretary of War Taft's annual report; committee of scientists; Filipino committee.
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