The Tucson citizen., 1902-02-06

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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-
ccpt III whooping cough, for years.
The winter months, from the middle
of September TO the first of MAY, are i'll
this locality the finest i'll the world. One
bright Sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhlarating; the
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
1t is a JOY to live.
AT present have never known a per
| son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
| III the altitude suited TO their particular
case that did not get well; nor have
| known of one i'll 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. Fcnner. Of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific X. r., saws
| 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. 1t 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
267 and SO" respe. lively. The rainfall
is 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 healthfut part of the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found bv experience to be particul-
arly beneficial to most cases of puimon-
AIRY phthisis, especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubcrcular periods
DR.. 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 coutin-
uousiy in the open air for period of sew
eral months or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a climate is re-
quIred which is continuously warm and
! drv. Such n climate the United States
does not possess. but the nearest APP
proach to 1t is Arizona.
/ Physicians rare'v send their paints
! TO the ard -eg.ons cn-i1g simmer nd
this ! consider II great -sstake. he
patients should he sent to the arid re.
gions so soon as there is evidence of iu-
fiction from the tubercle 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 dry climate. The relative humidity Z
in southern California is as great, and I
in some instances greater, than that of I
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 rcgior,s make IL far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. 1think il may be-
assumed as a. general rsk. that sher-s
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. and patients
suffering from pulu1ohary& sphthisis1
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-4
ion, advantages as health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. | know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such a low degree OF relative humid-s
ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. II is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of 8. 900 feet, or over. Inc
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 =, 400 feet. and that seems to-
be amply high for all but the most ex4
ceptioual cases. The city is situated in
basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled int
by massive mountain ranges. ITO the
north is the Santa Catalina range; tos
the east, the Rncon to. the south, the
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
son. Each Of these ranges has an afti-s
tude OF 6, 600 feet at least. Mount@-Le-
mon. the highest peak of the Catahnas.
NJ cunt Wdehtsdn Id theSanta Ritas.
reaches ain altitude of nearly 11,000
feet. j+.ss ft.s; s4
"The scenery at Tucson is AZ impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky nouns
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and suns
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October I'd
June. inclusive, .1a94~S, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine u
these were IN one month. Some idea q
the transparency of the atmospheEe maj
be had when state that, 1t MIDDAY
apd with sths. .pnaidsd ere, j Ihayesec3
Venue whesi II WAs' but ten desffe{S SssAst
of the sunT hHs 80 hsFtsg sseeAN