Name not reported
A prisoner held at Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippine Islands, was one of about ten people who died in late 1906 after receiving an experimental anti-cholera inoculation given through a Bureau of Science program. Governor-General Smith's dispatch to the War Department said the serum had been contaminated with bubonic plague culture, probably through a bottle misplaced by a visitor, and later investigating scientists reached the same finding. Dr. William R. Moulden, a former resident physician at the prison, doubted the inoculation caused the deaths and called them an accident. A Filipino committee found that no one was responsible, and the War Department said it would provide for the families of the dead.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Governor-General Smith and a committee of scientists attributed the deaths to plague culture mixed into the anti-cholera serum, and a Filipino committee found no one was responsible for the accident.
Reported by: Governor-General Smith's dispatch to the War Department; Secretary of War Taft's annual report; committee of scientists; physicians investigating the deaths; Bureau of Science investigators (outside investigators); Dr. William R. Moulden, former resident physician at Bilibid Prison.
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