The Tucson citizen., 1901-12-17

many las the writer sleep out during
the whole yer. There are not FIVE DAYS
IN the whok year but the most delicate
invalid can spend part of the day, at
least, ont OF doors. In this climate in.
iuries and wounds heal very. rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex
eept in whooping cough. for years.
The winter months, from the middle
Of September to the FIRST of May, are in
this locality the finest in the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhiiarating; the
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest Sowers. Truly
| IT is JOY TO live.
AT present have never known a per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages oi pulmonary disease andlocating
case that did not get well: nor have
known Of one 10 the second stage that
did not improve. But ! cannot refrain
from raising my voice against the out
| rage of sending advanced cases to this
ers."
DIR. H. w. Feuner, of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific X. K, says
Tucson is a 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
qucrorS. 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
| 20 and Sc respeA lively. The rainfall
| is small and but little irrigation is car
| ned on. The water supply is excellent,
The summers are long, the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree of humid
| itS 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 pulmou-
AIRY phthisis especially those OF the
earlier or pre-tubercular pcnods.
Or. 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-
uousiy in the open AIR for a period ofsev-
eral months. or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years. climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
docs not possess. but the nearest ap
proach to il is Arizona.
Physicians rare'v send their paint
to the arid -eH.ocs curiSg simmer s1d
this | consider a great -=.stake. Ihe
| patients should be sent 10 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 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 Ut
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the best
| piy sicians in California regularly send
their tubercuiar and asthmatic patients
| to Tucson. California is a beautiful
| country. but the fogs which come III
| rom the sea, and the emauations from
the vast irrigated regions. make II far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
| pht hisical atientS. think il may be
assumed as Il general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there Is "a high
degree OF relative humidity. and patients
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 60 together.
The city of Tucson has. in my opin-
| ion, advantages as health resort
which can not he cqualled anywhere III
| North America. | know OF no locality
| where such a moderate winter climate
| and such a low degree OF relative humid
itv are combined with the same latitude
and altitude II is no longer considered
imperative To send tubercula' patients
to an altitude OF ) 900 feet. or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to DC
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 4, 900 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is ., 400 feet and that seems To
be amply high for all but the most eX-
ceutional cases The city is situated III
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled III
by massive mountain ranges. 10 the
north is the Santa Catalina range, 10
the east the Rincon: 10 the south, the
Santa Rita. and on the west, the Tue
son. Each of these ranges has an slti-
tudc Of 5 200 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. the highest peak of the Catalinas:
has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Rtas,
reaches an altitude OF nearly 1l,0Oe
! feet.
The scenery at Tucson is 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
: Iune, inclusive. 1S9+-5. there were but
{ 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 seeH
e Venus when it was but ten degrees east
4 OF the sun