The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-17

many (as the writer sleep out during
the whole yePr. There are not five days
III 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 III whooplng cough, for years.
The winter months, from the middle
OF September to the first of May. are in
this locality the finest III the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhilaratng; the
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
it is a Joy to live.
AT present have never known per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andiocating
/ in the altitude suited to their particular
case that did not get well; nor have
known cf 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."
DIR. II W. Fenrer, of Tucson. Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific X r., says
Tucson is a city of IL, 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 male by the Spanish con-
querors. 1t is now the commercial and
railroad center OF Southern Arizona. The
climate II exceedingly dry and hraciug.
the humidity being exceedingly low; the
yearly minimum and maximum being
: 260 and So respeA lively. The rainfall
in small and but little irrigation is car
ried 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 healthfui part OF the year.
SunstTokeS and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
arly beneficial TO most cases of puknon-
ary phthisis. especially those of the
j, earlier or prc-tubercular periods.
: DR. Mark A. Rogers, of Tucson, says:
My experience has impressed upon
e me the necessity for outdoor life in the
II treatment OF pulmonary tuberculosis. In
a order that the patient may live contin-
I uously in the open air for a period of sew
= eral months or, for that matter, for a
. NCdI, vi s%fEiai years. NtiihhtS bs JC"
D quired which is continuously warm and
: dry. Such climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest APP
proach to 1t Is Arizona.
Physicians rare'w send their pa" "~rts
to the aid -eR.cus sur-g '-en=er nd
this | consider a great .-istake. / he
patients should be sent TO 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 sapparentthat
the case is hopeless.
Many physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter,
apparently with a view of sending them
to 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
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatie patients
to Tucson. California is a 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
phthisica patients. think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
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
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together.
THE city of Tucson has. in my opin-
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.
ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiaT patients
to an altitude of s. 900 feet, OF over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to Be
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 3. 900 feet. The altitude OK
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that secsns TO
be amply high for all but the most ex- +
ccptional cases. The city is situated IN 3
basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled n
bv massive mountain ranges. To the Y
north is the Santa Catalina range m b
the east, the Rincon; to the south, - K
Santa Rita; and On the west, the Tue.
son. Each of these ranges has an aItir
tude of S, 900 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. the highest peak of the CatAlinaes
has an elevation of 10000 fcet, a1S
Mount Wrightson in the Santa NINA &
reaches an altitude Of nearly ,U04
feet. u
"The scenery at Tucson II As imp
sivc as anywhere in the Rocky
tains. and the gorgeous sunxiae On
set beggar description. II.
During the nine months,
Iune, inclusive, 1896, therc
twenty-five cloudy days, 1I
these were in one month. i ~
the Transparency Of the atzno = Ia
! be had when state th6f, RI = : S|
!, and with the unaided ey0 7 M - y
|. Venus when it was Int IA Y ~iI<
= r. ~..s.