Name not reported
Ten prisoners held at Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippine Islands, died in late 1906 after receiving an experimental cholera inoculation given as part of a Bureau of Science effort to protect the prison against cholera. Governor-General Smith's dispatch to the War Department said the deaths were believed to have been caused by a bottle of plague culture misplaced into the serum, and a committee of scientists found attenuated plague cultures had been mixed into the cholera serum. Dr. William R. Moulden, a former resident physician at the prison, doubted that the inoculation caused the deaths and called them an accident. The War Department said it would look after the families of the dead.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Governor-General Smith's dispatch blamed a misplaced plague culture bottle mixed into the cholera serum, and a committee of scientists found attenuated plague cultures had been mixed into the serum, while a Filipino committee found that 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; Dr. William R. Moulden; Bureau of Science investigators (outside investigators); committee of scientists; Filipino committee (outside investigators).
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