The Tucson citizen., 1902-04-24

the whole yeer. 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 anot, err;
the nights are cool and exhilarating: he
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
1t is JOY to live.
AT present have never known a 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.
ers."
DR.. II. W. Fenner of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K. r., says
Tucson is a city of 10, 900 inha bitants,
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, II 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 see respectively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long. the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree OF humid.
ity makes the clear warmth tolerablc.
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-
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 a period ofsev-
cral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years. a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such q climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it 10 Arizona.
physicians rareiv send their pa.' >nts
to the arid -eg:ons :rxri1g s-fn:ser Id
this | consider great -.istake. 4hs
patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there 10 evidence of IN.
lection from the tubcrcle bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they are well. or until 1t is apparent that
the case 10 hopeless.
MANY physicians in the east order
| patients TO California for the wintei
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 u,
/ the Atlantic coast, and many OF the best
! physicians in California regularly send
/ their tubercular and asthmatic patients
| TO Tucson. California is beautiful
country, hut the iogs which come in
! rom the sea, and the emanations from
] the vas. irrigated regions, make II far
/ Inferior to the inland desert regions fof
/ phthisicf patients. think j; may bs
assumed as gcneral rule that wbcr'
ever there is irrigation there Is "A high
degree OF relative humidity. and patients
/ suffering from pulmonary phthIsis
/ should never be sent to an irrigated dis
/ trict. indeed, some of the Cahiornia
/ physicians have declared that irrigation
| and malaria go together
/ "Thc city ot Tucson has in my opiu'
+ ion. advantages as health resort
I which can moi he equailed anywhere in
North America. know OF no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
/ and such low degree of relative humid
itv are combined with the same latit udc
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
/ imperative 10 send tubcrcuiar patients
+ to an altitude of 5 ZOO feet, or over. lU
/ fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required 10 bt
/ sent to IN altitude or less, rather than
( more than 3 .o0o feet. The altitude oj
I Tucson is Z, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for an but the most ex-
ceptional cases. The city is situated IN
a basin near the underground Santa
] Cruz river. 1t is completely walled IN
{ by MASSIVE mountain ranges 10 Tax
north is the Santa Catalina range; TO
! the east, the Rincon, To the south. the
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue.
/ sou. Each OF these ranges has an slti
! tuic of s, 900 feet at least. Mount lie
mon. the highest peak ot the Catalinas
has an elevation OF 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas
reaches an altitude Of nearly IL ,00G
feet.
THE scenery at Tucson is as impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
taifs. and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October tt
Iune, inclusive, 1S94,o, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine @
these were in one month. Some idea g
the transparency OF the atmosphere ma,
be had when state that, at midd ay
and with the nnaided eye, have seer
Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
of the sun
/ Or. \. II. Matas, n Physician of Il
wears practice in this City, says
''Since cousumptives must depend on TIN
resisting forces of nature tor the cure o
.Lo;r d;seasc If IA evident that an earl,