Arizona daily citizen., 1901-10-25

rapid variations, and maximum
amount OF sunshine.
The climate of Tucson has all these
and more. 1t is possible to sleep out OF
doors 27O nights Of the year and spend
800 days in perpetual Sunshine, 1t is a
progressive and prosperous city III which
"A man may not only fird health but a
means OF livelihood and live in com
tor.
DR.. II. ". Fenner, OF Tucson, Surgeon
/ of the Southern Pacific X. r., says
Tucson is city of 10000 inhabitants,
on the main line Of the Southern Pacific
X iilway, altitude ? 400 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of the oldest
cttIcIncnts 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
26' and 5G' respe, lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
/ ricd on. The water supply IS excellent
/ The summers are long, the Thermometer
/ ranges high, but the low degree ofhumId
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
and the most hcalthful part OF the year.
/ Sunstrokcs and heat prostrations are
unknown The climate OF Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
nry beneficial to most cases OF pulmon-
AIRY pbthisis. 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 contin-
uously 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 n climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
prnach To il is Arizona.
Physicians rarel" send their pa'' 'nts
To the a'td e. oE 3 .mriag -rn=ler nd
this | consider a great %istake. he
patients should be sent to the ard re
giouN so soon as there is evidence OF in
lection from the tubcrclc bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they are well, or until it is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
MANY physicians i'll the east order
patients to California for the winter
apparently with ii view of sending them
to a dry climate The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
i'll some instances greater, than that ot
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubtrcular and asthmatic patients
TO Tucson. California is beautiful
country. but the fogs which come i'll
rom the sea, and the emanations from
the vast irrigated regions, make it far
Inferior to the inland desert regions for
phi hthisical patients. think II may be
assumed as general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is IA 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 60 together.
The city nt Tucson has. in my opin-
ion. advantages as health resort
which can not lie equalled anywhere in
! North America. | know Of no locality
where such moderate winter climate
and sHch low degree OF relative humid
ity are combined with the same latitude
and alritude. 1t is no longer considered
| imperative 10 s6UU luDSTCuIdI paICBIS
| to an altitude of 5 200 feet, or over. In
| fact. clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to be
| sent 10 an altitude or less, rather than
more than 3 1000 feet. The altitude Of
Tucson is 2. 400 feet. and that seems to
I've 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
bv 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
sou. Each OF these ranges has an slti-
tudc of 1000 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon, the highest peak of the Catalinas,
has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson i'll the Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude of nearly IL ,000
feet,
The scenery at Tucson is as impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
taius, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
sci bcgpaT description,