Arizona daily citizen., 1901-10-10

Railway. altitude 2,+00 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of tho oldest
settlements made bv the Spanish con
querors. 1t is now fhe commercial and
railroad center Of Southern Arizona. The
climate is exceedingly dry and bracing
the humidity being exceedingly low, the
yearly minimum and mn xinum being
26o and &C. respc. lively. The rainfall
is small and but httie irrigation rs car
ried on. The water supply ts excellent
The summers arc long. the thermometer
ranges high. but the low degree oihumid.
ity makes The clear warmth tolerah'c
and the most hcalthiul part OF the year
Sunstrokes and heat prostratious are
unknown The climate OF Tucson has
been found by experience to be part1cul-
arly beneficial To most cases OF pulmon
AIRY phthisis. especially those oi the
earlier or pre- tubcrcular periods
DIR. 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 sev-
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a climate is re
uuired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such IA climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest APP
proach to it IL Arizona.
Physicians rarely send their pa 'nts
to the arid -eR.ons faring a.en=iet ld
this | consider "A great -fstake. he
patients should be sent to the arid re
pions 80 soon as there is evidence of III.
sha ftttter@le hpCiltIiG lflu
should be made to remain there until
they are well, or until it is apparent that
| the case is hopeless.
"Many physicians in tho cast order
patients to California for the winter,
apparently with view of sending them
| TO dry climate. The relative humidity
| in southern California is as great, anu
| in some instances greater. than that o'
! the Atlantic coast. and many OF the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatic patients
to Tucson. California is beautiful
country, but the fogs which come in
| rom the sea, and the emanations from
the vast irrigated regions. make 1t lar
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. | think il may be
assumed as n general rule that whcr
ever there is irrigation there is a high
degree Of relative humidity. andpatients
suffering from pulmonary phthisis
should never be sent to an irrigated DIS
trict. Indeed, some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together
"The city Of Tucson has, in my opin
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere II
North America. know OF no loealit,
where such moderate winter climate
and such low degree Of relative humid
ity are combined with the same LATITUDE
and altitude. II is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercular patients
to an altitude OF 1000 feet, or over II
fact, clinical experience has proven thai
more frequently patients required to b.
sent to an altitude or less, rather thar
more than 1000 feet. The altitude o
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems e
be amply high for all but the most e&
ceptional cases, The city is situated II
basin near the underground santf