The Tucson citizen., 1902-02-10

many (as the writer sleep out during
the whole ye?r. There are not five days
III the whole year but the most delicate
invalid can spend part of the day a.
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.
THE winter months, from the mn die
of September to the first of May. are IN
this locality the finest in the world. Ora
bright sunshiny day succeeds another
the nights are cool and exhilarating, ti7e
whole country green with the riches
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
it is JOY to live.
AT present have never known yeT-
son coming to this Territory in the cary
stages OF pulmonary disease andloca NJ
in the altitude suited to their partic
case that did not get well; nor ha
known of one in the second stage 1s-
did not improve. But cannot ref 81
from raising my voice against the sc
rage of sending advanced cases to MS
or other sections to die among sire 2
ers."
DR.. II. ". Fenner. of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K. r., say
Tucson is a city of 1000 inhabitants4 s.
on the main line of the Southern PACT
Railway, altitude 2,400 feet above "a.
sea level. Tucson is one of the oil rss
settlements made by the Spanish
querors. 1t is now the commercial aba
railroad center of Southern Arizona.
climate is exceedingly dry and brac &,
the humidity being exceedingly low; a-
yearly minimum and maximum benz
260 and So rcspe, lively. The rain
is small and but little irrigation is
ried on. The water supply is excellcn1
The summers are long, the thermomr.c,
ranges high. but the low degree ofhumid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
! and the most healthfui part of the year.
| Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
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. La
! order that the patient may live contin-
uousiy in the open air for period ofsev
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
auired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess. but the nearest APP
proach to 1t Is Arizona.
Physicians rareiv send their pa .nts
to the arid -eg;ons curing s-naer nd
this | consider a great --istake. he
patients should be sent to the and re-
gions so soon as there is evidence of in
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 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 tubercuiar 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 1t far
| inferior to tho inland desert regions for
phthisical 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 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 tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of 5000 feet, or 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 Of
Tucson is 2, 400 feet, and that seems TO
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptional cases. The city is situated in
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled in
bv massive mountain ranges. To the
north is the Santa Catalina range; to
the east, the Rincon; to the south, the
Santa Rita: and on the west, the Tue
son. Each of these ranges has an alti-
tude of s, 900 feet at least. Mount Lee
mon, the highest peak Of the Catalinas.
has an elevation Of 10, ZOO tect, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritaa,
reaches an altitude Of nearly II, ,00O
feet.
"The scenery at Tucson IL as impress
sive as anywhere ia the Rocky mour-
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and st1-
set beggar description.
! "During the nine months, October ~
June, inclusive, 1S94-6, there were hut
twenty-five cloudy days, and mine ~
these were in one month. Some IN pf
the Transparency Of the atnno 1,1
be had when state that. n nigl11Y, !,
and with the unaided ~, axe ~ q
. Venus when il wasshnt ten de9reeo e1et
of the smn.' u -