The Tucson citizen., 1901-12-24

many Gas the writer sleep out during
the whole YER. There are not five days
II the whole year but the most delicate
Invalid can spend part of the day, at
least, out Of doors. In this climate in
iuilcs and wounds heal very rapidly.
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex
ccpi IN whooping cough, for years.
he winter months. from the middle
nt September to the first of Nav. are IN
this locality the finest III the world. one
bright Sunshiuy day succeeds another,
the nights are cool and cxhiIarating: the
whole country green with the ric hest
yerduc and the brightest flowers. Truly
IT is a JOY to live.
AT present have never known a per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
III the altitude suited to their particular
case that did not get well. nor have |
known of one IN the second stage that
did not improve. But | cannot refrain
from raising my voice against the out
rage of sending advanced cases to this
or other sections TO die among strang-
ers"
DR.. II. W. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacifc K. r., saws
Tucson is a city of 10, 900 inhabitants,
on the main line OF the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 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
26' and So respectively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply is excellent
The summers are long, the thermo ometer
ranges high, but the low degree ofhumid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerabie.
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-
ariy beneficial to most cases OF pulmon-
airy phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-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 contiT-
uously in the open air for period of sew
eral months. or, for that matter for
year. or several years, a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
prOach to it is Arizona.
physicians raretv send their pa"' 'nts
to the arid -sR. R.o1s sr1rI1g s-m=:er nd
this consider a great @.stake. he
patients should be sent to the arid re-
gions SO soon as there is evidence of in
fiction from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made TO remain there until
they are well. 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
to a dry climate The relative humidity
in southern California IS as great, and
in some Instances greater, than that of
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians III California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatic patients
70 Tucson. California is a beautiful
country. but the togs which come in
rom the sea, and the emanations from
inferior to the inland desert regions for
pht hisical patients. ! think II may be
assumed as a general rule that whcr-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity, and patients
suffering from pulmonary phthisis
should never he 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 he cqualled anywhere III
North America. know oi no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such Il low degree of relative humid
ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperati to send tubcrculaI patients
to an altitude of > 900 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to bc
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 3 900 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson Is 400 feet. aud that seems to
be amply high for all but the most cx-
cases. The city is situated III
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled III
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 elti-
tude of ) 600 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. til, highest peak OF the Catalinas,
has an elevation of 1000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson i'll he Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude ot yearly : noe
feet
"Thc scenery at Tu' as iHi cs-
sivc as anywhere ! N.ch. 3" I'M
tains, and the gorge iii f.se aad sun"
set bcggar dcsoripti
During the nil ontt7 October TO
Tune, inclusive. 1S' . tt"c were but
twenty-five clout iays ana nine OF
these were III one h. 0ome fdca OF
the transparency ne Atmosphere may
be had when .e t, at midday,
and with the '' d &C, have seen
Venus when it natt degrees east
of the sr:i.