The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-07

many tdS TIC WIlNtTJ slSCp out UuT1H&
the whole ye?r. There are not five days
IN the whole year but the most delicate
invalid can spend part Of the day, at
least, ont OF doors. In this climate in
iurcs and wounds heal very rapidly:
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex-
ccpt 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 exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
vcrdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
. 1t Is Joy TO live.
I AT present have never known a per-
son coming TO this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
i III the altitude suited to their particular
case that did not get well; nor have l
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 ". Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific X. r., says
Tucson is a city of l0, 900 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2.4O0 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of the Oldest
settlements made by the Spanish con-
querors. 1t is now the commercial and
railroad ceriter of Southern Arizona. The
climate is exceedingly dry and bracing,
the humidity being exceedingly low; the
yearly minimum and maximum being
269 and So respe. lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
Rcd ON. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long. the thermometer
ranges high. but the low degree ofhurnid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
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 particul-
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
ary phthisis. especially those of the
> carrier or pre-tubercular periods.
s DR. Marx A. Rogers. of Tucson, says:
My experience has impressed upon
c me the necessity for outdoor life IN the
4 treatment OF pulmonary tuberculosis. La
q order that the patient may live contin-
1 uouSiy III the open air for period of sew
. eral months or, for that matter, for a
D year, or several years, a climate il re-
IufiNu W ufti 10 w al du0
dry. Such climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it is Arizona.
Physicians rarSiv send their pa" ""nts
to the arid -eg.cns curing s-nl=1er nd
this | consider a great --~istakc. / he
: patients should be sent to the arid re-
! gions SO soon as there is evidence of in
} fcction from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made tn 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
III some instances greater, than that of
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatic 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
phth,sical patients. / think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
: ever there is irrigation there is a high
degree of relative humidity. and patients
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 health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere In
North America. know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
ana such low degree of relative humid
ty are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiar patienta
to an altitude OF s 900 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to ~
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 900 feet. The altitude az
Tucson is 2.40o feet. and that scens t<S
be amply high for all bnt the most exs
ccptional cases. The city is situated m
basin near the underground Sext1
Cruz river. 1t is completely walIed n
bv massive mountain ranges. ~ &8e
north is the Santa Catalina ranko4 k6
the east, the Rineon: to the aeigf ~
Santa Rita; and ON the west. t ~.
son. Each of these ranges haA ri = ~
tude of s, 900 feet at least. MO3nf L.
mon. the highest peak OF the C6 6k -.
has an elevation of 10000 0ald
Mount Wrightson Ia the 6an( Sas
reaches an altitude Of nex l10
feet. s|sss ss
"The scenery al Tucson ins - y
sive as anywhere ia the E61 i & 3
tains, and the gorgeous f Il : = \.
set beggar descriptions
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, tune, inclusive, 1613 E 6
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