The Tucson citizen., 1902-07-10

custom to sleep out of doors from tn,
middle >f May until September, anc
many (as the writer) sleep out during
the whole ye9r. There are not five days
IN the whole year but the most delicats
Invalid can spend part of the day, at
least, out of doors. In this climate in
iuries and wounds heal very rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mid. There has been no epidemic, ex.
cept 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 flowers. Truly
1t IS JOY to live.
AT present have never known per-
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages ot pulmonary disease apdlocating
IN 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 straug-
ers."
DIR. Fl. ". Feuner. of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific r. 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. II il now the commercial and
railroad ccuter 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.
RED on. The water supply 10 excellent.
The summers are long. the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree of humid
ity makes the clear warmth toierabie,
and the most heaithful part of the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particui- |
ariy beneficial 10 most cases of palmon- |
ary phthists. especially those of the |
earlier or prc-tubercular periods.
DR.. Mark A. Rogers, of Tacson. says:
- My experience has impressed upon /
me the necessity for out-door LIFE in the |
treatment OF pulmonary Tuberculosis. In |
order that the patient may live consin-
uously IN the open air for a period ofsxv-
eral months, or, for that matter. for o |
year, or several years, climate In re- |
quired which is continuously WARM and |
dry. Such climate the United States /
does not possess. but the nearest ap. |
proaeh to II ~ Arizona.
Physiciaus rare'~ send their pa.s~mts
10 the arid -eg.ons -urisg f-rn-nes nd
this ] consider a great =.stake. Alss
patients should he seat 10 the arid re
gions so soon as there il ryidence of IN
section from the tubercis bacillus. aud
should be made to remain there until
they are well, Or untii il Is apparent t that
the case is hopeless.
MANY physicians in the east order
patients To California for the winter /
with view OF sruiang them
TO dry climate Ths relative hupsdsty
IN southern California - as great. and
IN some Instances greater. than that ..
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the bxss
PHYSICIANS in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmat,S pati~uts
to Tncson. California Ia a bcausifsas
but the fogs which coane iD
rom the sra, and the esnanati lions tsosn
/ he vast irrigated regions. make IL far
inferior 20 the inland desert regions for
phthisicai patients. think it may tx
assumed as general rule that wber.
sver there 10 irrigation there is o high
iegree of relative hutnidity. and patients
from pulmonary phthisis
should never be sent 20 an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together.
The city ut Tucson has. in my opiu.
ON, advantages as a health resort
which can pot be eqnailed anywhere in
North America. know OF no locality
where such q moderate winter climate
md such low degree of relative humid.
~ are combined with. the same latitude
lfad altitude. II 10 no longer considered
Imperative 10 send tubercuiaf patients
o an altitude Of s 200 feet. or over. In
net, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required TO be
eut TO an altitude or less. rather than
more than 8 1000 feet. The altitude oi
Tucson 10 2, 400 feet, and that seems to
,e amply high for all but the most ex
eptionaI cases. The city is situated in
/ basin near the underground Santa
,.rux river. II 10 completely walled in
" massive mountain ranges. To the
lorth in the Santa Catalina range: to
he east, the Rincon; to the south, the
,anta Rita: and on the west. the Tue
on. Bach of these ranges has an siti-
ude of 5000 feet at least. Mount lie
non. thu highest peak of the Cataiinas,
as an elevation OF 10000 feet, and
dount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas.
caches an altitude of nearly II, ,0oe
ret.
"The scenery at Tucson is as impress
i've as anywhere iu the Rocky noun
aims, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
ct beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
une, inclusive, 1S94-5, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine OF
hese were in one month. Some idea OF
he transparency of the atmosphere may
e had when state that, at midd ay
nd with the unaided eye, l have seen
'enus when it was hut ten degrees east
{ the SUM-"
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