The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-20


middle If May until September. and
many (as the writer) sleep out during
the whole yePr. 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
mid. 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
II 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
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."
of the Southern Pacific K. r., says
Tucson is a city of 10, 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 center of Southern Arizona. The
climate is exceedingly dry and bracing,
the humidity being exceedingly low; the
yearly minimum and maximum being
260 and 56o respe, lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
RED 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 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 pnlmon-
airy phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or prc-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-
,
crai months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap
proach TO it is Arizona.
physicians rareIv send their paints
to the arid -eg.ons curing s-en=1er nd
, this ] consider n great --istake. / hs
, patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence of in
lection 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 O dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
? in some instances greater, than that .,
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
I their tubercular and asthmatic patients
e to Tucson. California is a beautifu,
country, but the fogs which come in
rom the sea, and the emanations from
i, the vast irrigated regions, make it far
: inferior to the 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 anfrrigated dis
:. trict. Indeed some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
: and malaria go together.
"Tbe CITY ot Tucson has. in my opin-
ion. advantages as n health resort
IS which can not be equalled anywhere in
's North America. | know OF no locality
y where such a moderate winter climate
l. and such low degree of relative humid
Is itv are combined with the same latitude
% and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
J. imperative to send tubercular patients
'e to an altitude of s. 900 feet, or over. In
n fact, clinical experience has proven that
. more frequently patients required to be
le sent to an altitude or less, rather than
c, more than 5000 feet. The altitude oil
1t 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
: basin near the underground santa
:, Cruz river. 1t is completely walled IN
! by massive mountain ranges. TO the
= north il the Santa Catalina range: to
the east, kUG NtANou, ~ ShN s's~
y Santa Rita: and on the west, the Tue
' son. Each of these ranges has an alti-
y tude of 5000 feet at least. Mount lie.
= = mon. the highest peak of the Catalinas
= !, has nm elevation of 10000 feet, and
- Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas
= = reaches an altitude of nearly 11,O0e
:. feet.
1.-The scenery at Tucson is as impres
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
&c tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
is set beggar description.
'g During the nine months, October te
IN Vune, inclusive, 1s94-5, there were but
'y twenty-five cloudy days, and nine o
1g these were in one month. Some idea o
id the transparency of the atmosphere may
n be had when ! state that, at midd ay
IL and with the unaided eye, have seer
Mt Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
no of the sum-"
;fe Or. N. H. Matas, a Physician OF l.
te m wears practice in this City, says
i.c:.,oo nouruutntives must dcDend on tn