The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-30

ineDrlatcu at the time. 1t rs Uncommon
custom to sleep out of doors from the
middle >f May until September and
many (as the writer) sleep out during
the whole year. There are not five days
in 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 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
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
| it is JOY to live.
"At present have never known per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
in 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-
ers.
DR.. H. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K. r.. says
| Tucson is city of 10, 600 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific !
/ Railway, altitude 2 400 feet above the t
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
260 and So respe. lively. The rainfall
is small and hut little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long, the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree oihumid-
itS makes the clear warmth tolerable,
and the most healthtul 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
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. In
order that the patient may live contin-
uously in the open air for period OF sew
erai months, or, for that matter. for a
year, or several years, climate is re-
uuired which is continuously warm and
!. dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess. but the nearest ap-
proach TO II ~ Arizona.
physicians rfareiv send their pa|l l~nts
TO the arid eg.ous suri7g f-xr=er 10
this | consider a great -%-istake. be
patients should be sent TO the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence OF in.
! lection 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.
! "Manv physicians in the east order
patients 10 California tor the winter i,
e apnarcutiy with view Of sending them
!. to dry climate The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
G in some instances greater, than that %
/. the Atlantic coast, and many oi the best
physicians in California regularly send
/. their tnbercular and asthmat,l patients
= TO Tucson. California is a beautiful
country. but tho iogs which come IN
Z
!, the vast irrigated regions. make II tar
' interior to tho inland desert regions for
phthisicai patients. think it may be
assumed as "a general rule that whcr-
!. ever there is irrigation there rs high
: degree of relative humidity, andpatients
= 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 ~ Tucson has. in my opin
ion. advantages as a health resoT'
10 WHICH can not be euualled anywhere II
- North America. know OF no LOCALITY
y where such moderate winter climate
i' and such a low degree OF relative humid
70 ,ty are combined with the same latitud'
70 and altitude. 1t 10 no longer consideret
d ;muerative 10 send tubercuiar pat'ent
DC to an altitude of &. 900 teet, or over. II
n fact clinical experience has proven tina
60 more frequently patients required 10 b
nc sent to an altitude or less. rather thai
e, more than Z. 900 feet. The attitude O
1t Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems 4
be amply high for all but the most ex
ceptional cases The city is situated \
a basin near the underground SAINT
ae Crux river. le is completely walled I
~ by massive mountain ranges. To tn
north is the Santa Catalina range; I
= the east, the Rincon, to the south: tn
u Santa Rita; and on the west, the u
=. son. Each OF these ranges has an cit
y tude of s. 900 feet at least. Mount Ia
ag mon. the highest peak of the Catalina
8, has an elevation OF 10000 feet, an
lu Mount Wrightson in the Santa Rita
~ u reaches an altitude OF nearly 11'oo
~. feet.
"The scenery at Tucson is as impre
siye as anywhere in the Rocky mou
Ic- tains. and the gorgeous sunrise and su
IS set beggar description.
ng "Duriag the nine months, october
an Iune, inclusive, 1s9+-5, there were b'
by TWENTY-FIVE cloudy days. and nine
ng these were in one month. Some idea
nd the transparency of the atmosphere ms
III he had when state that, at midd
III and with the unaided eye, have se'
mt Venus when it was hut ten degrees ea'
no of the sun"
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