Name not reported
A person held at Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippine Islands, died in November 1906 after receiving an experimental cholera inoculation ordered by the prison's laboratory, one of a group of prisoners who died after the injections. Governor-General Smith's dispatch to the War Department and Secretary of War Taft's report attributed the deaths to a bottle of bubonic plague culture mistakenly used in place of cholera serum, with a visitor believed to have misplaced it. A committee of scientists later found that attenuated plague cultures had been mixed into the cholera serum. Dr. William R. Moulden, a former resident physician at the prison, doubted the inoculation caused the deaths and called them an accident. A committee of Filipinos found that no one was responsible and recommended provision for the families of the dead.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident (disputed). Governor-General Smith and Secretary Taft attributed the deaths to plague culture mixed into the anti-cholera serum, while Dr. William R. Moulden, a former prison physician, doubts the inoculation caused them.
Reported by: Governor-General Smith, via War Department dispatch; Secretary of War Taft's annual report; Bureau of Science investigators (outside investigators); committee of scientists; Filipino committee; Dr. William R. Moulden.
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- Evening Star, November 29, 1906, page 3
- The Daily Morning Journal And Courier, November 29, 1906, page 1
- The Richmond Palladium, November 30, 1906, page 4
- Passaic City Record, December 1, 1906, page 1
- The Washington Times, December 2, 1906, page 12
- The Morris County Chronicle, December 4, 1906, page 7
- The Lamar Register, December 5, 1906, page 2
- The Washington Herald, December 13, 1906, page 4
- Perth Amboy Evening News, December 13, 1906, page 3
- The San Francisco Call, December 15, 1906, page 4
- The Abbeville Press And Banner, January 2, 1907, page 2
- Springfield Weekly Republican, May 30, 1907, page 9