The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-04

many tas the writer sleep out during
the whole year. There are not FIVE davs
IN the whole year but the most delicate
invalid can spend part of the day, at
least out of doors. In this climate in
iurlcs and wounds heal very rapidly:
contagious diseases are usually very
mid. There has been no epidemic, ex-
cept III whooping cough, for years.
THE winter months, from the middle
OF September to the first of Nav, 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.
AT present | have never known 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 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-
crs."
DIR. II. W. Fenner, OF Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific K r., saws
Tucson is a city of 10000 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
26' and So respectively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply IL excellent.
The summers are long. the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree OF humid
ity makes the clear warmth tolerabie.
and the most healthful 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-
AIRY phthisis, especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubercnlar periods.
Or. Mark A. Rogers, of Tucson, saws:
My experience has impressed upon
me the necessity for outdoor life i'm the
treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. In
order that the patient may live contin-
uously IN the open air for q period of sew
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
| year, or several years, a climate is re-
! quired which rs continuously warm and
| dry. Such 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 -exscns cnri-g ..m=.er nd
this consider a great --:stake. 2he
patients should he sent to the arid re.
| gions SO soon as there is evidence of in
fiction from the tubercle bacillus, and
should he 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 view of sending them
to dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater. than that Ut
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
phthisical patients. think it may be
assumed as general rule that wkcr-
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 opiu-
ion. advantages as health resort
which can not be equalied 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
to send tubercuiaY patients
to an altitude of 5000 feet, or over. Iii
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 see1ns IL
be amply high for all but the most<x-
ceptional cases. The city is situated III
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely wailed III
by massive mountain ranges. 40 the
north is the Santa Catalina rai1ee: to
the east, the Rincon; to the sontk fi1c
Santa Rita; and ON the west. He Tnr.
son. Each of these ranges has aa o3ti-
tude of 6, 900 feet at least. Mount ~
mon. the highest peak OF the CO. Irila
has an elevation of 10000 ks snd
Mount Wrightson in the SAINTS ifas
reaches an altitude of nearly COO
feet.
1.-The scenery at Tucson II ~ N, ,e,s. BSs
sive as anywhere ia the K0ck f,a1f,-
tains, and the gorgeous sunxi y Il r Il u.
set beggar description.
During the nine no11t p = " s
June, inclusive, 1Sg4-6, S7 : & r. 20 u IS
twenty-five cloudy day0 s sS
these were In one montI \
the Transparency of tt +
be had when Istat .Zas q
and with the unAf lg
Venus wlscn Il twae ~ ii II
Of the sun" ||sSS3