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Ten, or by some reports thirteen, people held at Bilibid Prison in Manila died in late 1906 after receiving an experimental cholera inoculation meant to protect the prison against the disease. Governor-General Smith's dispatch to the War Department said a bottle of plague culture was probably placed in the serum by mistake, and a committee of scientists found the deaths came from attenuated plague cultures mixed into the 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 and called them an accident.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Governor-General Smith's dispatch and a committee of scientists attributed the deaths to plague culture mixed into the cholera serum, and a Filipino committee found no one responsible for the accident.
Reported by: Governor-General Smith, via War Department dispatch; Secretary of War Taft's annual report; physicians and Bureau of Science investigators investigating the deaths (outside investigators); committee of scientists; Filipino committee; Dr. William R. Moulden, former resident physician at the prison.
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