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Typhus Threat Rises as Ingerfields Lead Aid in Limehouse
John Ingerfield and his wife Anne organize a makeshift hospital in the counting house at Limehouse as typhus spreads. Faced with fear, poverty, and crowded streets, they mobilize volunteers, care for the sick, and grow closer while nursing the afflicted.
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John Ingerfield
Anne
Limehouse
London
John
John—stern
Merchant Tailor’s School
Lavender Wharf
Creek Lane
Bloomsbury
Ingerfield
Woolwich
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