The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-25

ii'Ni'f Afh' ttAS NAlANt SsCTlj ou% huIHR
the whole yePT. There are not five days
IN the whole year but the most delicate
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
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex-
cept in whooping cough, for years.
The winter months. from the middle
OF September to the FIRST OF NAV, are in
this locality the finest III the world One
bright Sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and celebrating. the
whole country green with the richest
yerdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
II is a Joy TO live.
''At present have never known a per-
son coming TO this Territory i'll the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
IN The altitude suited TO their particular
case that did not get we'll nor have |
known Of one in the second stage that
did not improve. But cannot refrain
from raising my voice against the out
rage ot sending advanced cases to this
or other sections TO die among strang-
ers.'
DIR. II. W. Fenner. OF Tucson. Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific r. 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-
qucrors. II 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 56' respectively. 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 of humid
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable,
and the most heaithful part of the year
Surstrokes and heat prostratious are
unknown. The climate OF Tucson has
been found hy expei nee TO be particui-
arly beneficial TO most cases of puimon-
/ AIRY phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubercular periods.
| DIR. Mark A. Rogers, of Tucson, saws:
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 sew
erai months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a climate is re-
qnIred which is continuously warm and
dry. Such climate the United States
does not possess. but the nearest ap-
proach 10 ii Is Arizona.
Physicians raresr send their pa+;"nts
TO the arid -ex:ous cxtri1g ;.snzer nd
this | consider a great =.stakc. fhe
patients should be sent to the arid re.
gions so soon as there is evidence of in-
fiction from the tubcrcle 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 a 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
phy ysicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatie 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 it far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it 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 be sent to an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed, some of the California
have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together
"The city Of Tucson has. in my opiu-
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative humid
itv are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
TO send tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of 5000 feet. or over. In
fact. clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to be
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 5000 feet. The altitude of
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ccptional cases. The city is situated in
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled in
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 alti-
tude of 5000 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. the highest peak of the Cataiinas,
has IN elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson IN the Santa Ritas, Il
reaches an altitude of nearly II, ,O00
feet.
"The scenery at Tucson is a. impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky naoun- !.
tains, and the gorgeous SUNRISE and sum
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October 10
June inclusive, 1S94-5, there were hut
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine u
these were in one month. Some idea AZ
the transparency of the atinosphere nnnY
be had when state that, At mi(l(lnY
and with the unaided eye, have De1
Venus when it was but ten degrees ea1k