PLAGUE DEATH
Victim Was Questioned f(V.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Augu-t 5. An inquest into the death from pneumonic plague of a British germ warfare scientist, Geoffrey Bacon, will be held on Tuesday. Mr Baeon died on Wednesday from the disease, which he contracted while working at the secret Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton, Wiltshire. The director of the War Office research centre, Dr. David Henderson, said today investigations were being made into how Mr Bacon caught the disease. The “Daily Express" said it was learned on Sunday night that Mr Baeon was questioned thoroughly by War Office experts before he died. He was completely coherent, but could offer no explanation of how he had contracted the plague He was able to tell the experts of all the routine precautions he had taken during the previous week They were exactly the same precautions as he had taken daily for more than 12 years
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29894, 7 August 1962, Page 15
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