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The New Hampshire Gazette Domestic News October 8, 1793
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A letter from New-York reports remarkable health there and strict precautions against the yellow fever from Philadelphia.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 96.39% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 98.15% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 95.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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BOSTON, October 2.
Extract of a letter from New-York, September 24, 1793.
"Although the yellow fever rages with so much violence in Philadelphia, yet it is a time of remarkable health here; and there has been no person of this place, seized with it. Every precaution is made use of to keep it out, strict watch is kept night and day, to prevent the people coming from Philadelphia, and great numbers of citizens are appointed to clear the streets of every dirt and filth.—Continual advice appears in the papers from the Physicians to the people, and daily information from a standing committee is published for the city. We therefore think ourselves very safe; I wish you were as much so in Boston. For want of proper precautions, many persons have gone to Boston from Philadelphia. But I hope the distance from place to place may operate against it."
Extract of a letter from New-York, September 24, 1793.
"Although the yellow fever rages with so much violence in Philadelphia, yet it is a time of remarkable health here; and there has been no person of this place, seized with it. Every precaution is made use of to keep it out, strict watch is kept night and day, to prevent the people coming from Philadelphia, and great numbers of citizens are appointed to clear the streets of every dirt and filth.—Continual advice appears in the papers from the Physicians to the people, and daily information from a standing committee is published for the city. We therefore think ourselves very safe; I wish you were as much so in Boston. For want of proper precautions, many persons have gone to Boston from Philadelphia. But I hope the distance from place to place may operate against it."
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
What keywords are associated?
Yellow Fever
Precautions
New York Health
Where did it happen?
New York
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
New York
Event Date
September 24, 1793
Outcome
no cases in new-york; precautions taken