Arizona daily citizen., 1901-11-01

The climate of Tucson has all these
and more. 1t is possible to sleep out of
doors 27O nights of the year and spend
365 DAYS in perpetual Sunshine. 1t is a
| progressive and prosperous city in which
man may not only find health but a
means of livelihood and live in COM
ort.
DIR. II. W. Fenner of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific X. r., says
Tucson is city of 10, 900 inhabitants,
| on the main line Of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2, 400 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of the oldest
settlements made by the Spanish con-
querors. 1t is now the commercial and
railroad center of Southern Arizona. The
climate is exceedingly dry and bracing,
the humidity being exceedingly low; the
yearly minimum and maximum being
2G' and SO respe, lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long, the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree ofhurnid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
and the most healthful part Of the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
arly beneficial TO most cases Of pulrnon-
airy phthisis, especially those of the
earlier or prc-tubercular periods.
DR.. Mark A. Rogers. of Tucson, says:
My experience has impressed upon
me the necessity for outdoor life IN the
treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. In
order that the patient may live contin-
uously in the open air for period of sew
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it is Arizona.
"Phy ysicians rare'v send their pat 'nts
to the arid -egions crlri1g s-m=,er I'D
this ! consider a great =istake. Ahe
patients should be sent to the arid re-
gions so soon as there is evidence of in
lection from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they are we'll, or until it is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
MANY physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter,
apparently with view of sending them
10 dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
i'll some instances greater, than that of
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
| physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatit patients
to Tucson. California is a beautiful
country, but the fogs which come IN
rom the sea, and the emanations from
the vast irrigated regions, make IL far
| inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it may be
| assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. and patients
suffering from pulmonary phthisis
should never be sent 20 an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria 60 together.
THE city of Tucson has. in my opin-
ion, advantages as health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. l know OF no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such low degree OF relative humid
ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercular patients
to an altitude of s. 900 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to be
sent TO an altitude or less, rather than
more than 5000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is 2, 400 feet, and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptional cases. The city is situated In
basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled in
by massive mountain ranges. To the
north is the Santa Catalina range; to
the east, the Rincon; to the south, the
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
son. Each of these ranges has an alti-
tude of 5000 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon, the highest peak of the Catalinas.
has an elevation of 10000 feet. and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude Of nearly IL 1000
feet.
"The scenery at Tucson 10 as impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
June. inclusive, 1S94-5, there were bat
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine OF
these were in one month. Some idea OF
the transparency of the atmosphere may
be had when state that, at midday,
and with the unaided eye, have seen
| Venus when it was but ten degrees cast
of the SUM-
DR., N, H. Matas, a Physician Of II
wears practice in this City, sayss--
''Since consumptives must depend on the
resisting forces of nature for the cure o
their disease, it is evident that an early
selection of good winter climate 10 the
most important factor for their cure and
future welfare.
"They need a warm, dry climate in
winter, free from fogs, heavy frosts,
storms, chilling winds and sudden at
mospheric changes, climate where
there 10 q constant sunshine and plenty
of pure air, and where they can have
outdoor exercise daily. Treatment a.
! well as climate must be undertaken
early to do good when there = yeta
good foundation upon which 20 nulId
the system. We must remember thets
nature alone cures, and where there Ii
no nature there 10 no hope Phye6c3uue
and climate can only help nature, -
they can do no good when tature u
destroyed.
"The official weather reports an6 ulls
yeyors Of the United States, ~ tll ~
the scientific climatoioGiatA a6nllk TIT
Tucson is the center offhe m0et AxosN
able zone Ia the southNeet ~ ~
nroyemeut and mainfennilt< Of sille
/ lconsumptises IN the United StAte1
] not in the world.