The Tucson citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz.) 1901-1928, 1902-02-27

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many (as the writer sleep out during
the whole yer. 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.
1.-THE winter months, from the middle
of September to the 6rst of May, are i'll
this locality the finest i'll the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
it is Joy to live.
"At present have never known per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
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 strang-
erS."
DR.. II. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific r. r., says
Tucson is a city of 10 900 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2,+0O 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,
! he ht,,1tI;yx I.,,n If,,.,t he
yearly minimum and maximum being
go and So respe, lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
RED on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long, the thermonete,
ranges high, but the low degree ofhumd.
I ity makes the clear warmth tolerabe
and the most healthtul part of the year.
/ Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particui
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 contin-
uously in the open air for a period Of sew
erai months, or, for that matter for a
year, or several years, climate is re.
CURED which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap
proach TO it is Arizona.
Physicians rare'v send their pa''-nts
to the arid -eg.ons S0ri1g s-snzer I'D
this | consider great =istake. III.
patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence ot in
lection from the tubercie bacillus, and
should be made to remain there unit
they are well, or until it is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
MANY physicians in the east orde,
patients to California for the water
apparently with view of sending then
to dry climate The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, ant
in some instances greater, than that q
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the hes
physicians in California regularly sent
, their tubercular and asthmatic patient
: to Tucson. California ia beautiful
country, but the fogs which come ii
rom the sea, and the emanations iron
the vast irrigated regions, make 1t ia
Inferior to the inland desert regions 70
phthisical patients. think it may b
assumed as a general rule that wher
. ever there 10 irrigation there is higl
degree Of relative humidity. and patients
suffering from pulmonary phthisi'
should never be 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 opiu
ion, advantages as health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere II
North America. know OF no locaht,
: 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
imperative to send tubercuiar patients
: to an altitude Of s ZOO feet. or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven thai
D more frequently patients required to b.
{ sent to an altitude or less, rather thar
, more than 8 900 feet. The altitude o
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems tS
| be amply high for all but the most ex
= ceptional cases. The city is situated il
basin near the underground SAINTS
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled il
by massive mountain ranges. To thu
north is the Santa Catalina range; t
the east, the Rincon: to the south. thu
: Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
: son. Each of these ranges has an alti
tude of G, 900 feet at least. Mount lie
! mon. the highest peak of the Catalinas
|, has an elevation of 10000 feet. ant
j Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas
reaches an altitude Of nearly l1,o0'
feet.
1.-THE scenery at Tucson is as impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
= tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
$ set beggar description.
z During the nine months, October t.
n June, inclusive, 1S94-5, there were bu
y twenty-five cloudy days, and nine
z these were in one month. Some idea G
the transparency of the atmosphere ma.
l. he had when state that, at midd a,
i and with the unaided eye, have see
t Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
d of the sum-"
!. DR.. N, H. Matas, a Physician OF /
= vears practice in this City, says