The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-18

"'uuie u May until September. and
many las the writer sleep out during
the whole year. There are not five days
IN the whole year but the most delicate
!nvahd can spend part of the day, at
least, out OF doors. In this climate in
lures 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 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.''
Or. II. W. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific r. r., says
Tucson is a city of 200 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude Q 400 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
26' and 56o respe, lively. 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 ofhumid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
and the most hcalthful 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-
erai months, or, for that matter, for
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 rare'v send their pa''
to the arid -eg:ons ;rtri1g :-enzer I'D
this | consider a great --istake. hS
patients should be sent to the arid 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
, 10 dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
. in some instances greater, than that y,
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular 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 the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it may he
assumed as a general rule that whcr-
. ever there is irrigation there ls 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
1.-The city ot Tucson has. in my opin.
ion, advantages as a 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
8 ity are combined with the same latitude
, and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
: imperative to send tubercular patients
to an altitude of 5000 feet, or over. In
: fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to bt
{ sent to an altitude or less, rather thar
: more than 3 1000 feet. The altitude O
I Tucson is 2,40O feet, and that seems tc
be amply high for all but the most ex
ccptional cases. The city is situated II
a basin near the underground Santa
:, Cruz river. 1t is completely walled II
:. bv massive mountain ranges. 10 th'
). north is the Santa Catalina range; tf
. the east, the Rincon; to the south. th'
:, Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
:. son. Each of these ranges has an aiti
tude of 5000 feet at least. Mount lie
= mon. the highest peak of the Catal'nas
= has an elevation of 10000 feet, ant
u Mount Wrightson in the Santa R'tas
reaches an altitude OF nearly l1,0O'
r. feet.
THE scenery at Tucson is as impres
siye as anywhere in the Rocky noun
c. tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
is set beggar description.
& During the nine months, October t.
n Inne. inclusive, 1s94-5. there were hu
" Twenty-Five cloudy days, and nine {
* these we're in one month. Some idea
I'd the transparency of the atmosphere ma
h he had when | state that, at midd a
H. and with the unaided eye, have see
IT Vents whcn it was hut ten degrees cas-
~ of the SUM-
f. DR.. N, II. Matas, Physician OF ]
r. wears practice in this City, SAYS
Y ''Sincc consumptives must depend on tn
= :..:,,v Eo+cnS of nature for the cure