The Tucson citizen., 1902-03-11


middle IF May until September. and
many (as the writer sleep out during
the whole yer. 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
luries 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
it 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 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 I
or other sections to die among strang.
ers."
DR.. II. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific X. r.. says
Tucson is a city of 10, 900 Inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude :, 400 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of the Oldest
settlements made by the Spanish con
qucrors. 1t is now the commercial and
railroad center of Southern Arizona The
climate is exceedingly dry and braciug,
the humidity being exceedingly low; the
yearly minimum and maximum being
20 and So rcspe, ,tiYely. 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 othumld-
lty 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 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. In
order that the patient may live contin
uously IN the open air for period ofsev.
eral months, or for that matter, for a
| year, or several years, climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
| drv. Such climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap
| proach to it is Arizona.
| physicians rare'v send their pa';onts
to the arid -eg.ous ,ntri1g :Hn=eE I'd
this consider a great -istake. h,
| IL, l.. |
| 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 a dry climate The relative humidity
iii southern California is as great, and
| in some instances greater, than that oi
the Atlantic coast, and mauy of the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatiI 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 tho inland desert regions foi
I N
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 equaled anywhere in
| North America. ! know OF no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such a low degree of relative humid
ty are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tuberculaT patients
| to an altitude of 5000 feet, or over. In
| fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to bc
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 3 900 feet. The altitude OF
! Tucson is :, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex
ccptional 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 sti
tude of 900 feet at least. Mount LIE
mon the highest peak of the Catalinas
! has au elevation OF 900 feet, and
/ Mount Wrightson in the Santa R1tas
reaches an altitude of nearly II, ,00G
feet.
''The scenery at Tucson is rs impres
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
tans. and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
! Iune inclusive, 1S94-5, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine OF
these were in one month. Some idea OF
/ the transparency of the atmosphere may
be had when state that, at midday
and with the unaided eye. have seen
Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
of the sun"
I DR.. y, II. Matas, a Physician of II