The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-09

the whole ye@r. There are not FIVE davs
III the whole year but the most delicate
invalid can spend part of the dav, 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-
ccpt IN whooping cough, for years.
THE winter months, from the middle
ot 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 cxhilarating 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 andlocatiug
10 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 l0, 900 inhabitants,
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 56' resge, lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long, the therm ometer
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-
ariy beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
AIRY phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubercular periods.
DIR. 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-
eral months, or, for that matter, for q
year. or several years. a climate 10 re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest APP
proach to it is Arizona.
Physicians rars'v send their pa|;"nts
to the arid -e2;c0s curing simmer nd
this / consider a great --istake. 1he
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 a dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater, than that ut
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatie patients
to Tucson. California is a beautiful
country. but the fogs which come in
rom the sea, and the enanations from
the vast irrigated regions, make 1t far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisicai patients. think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is 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 of Tucson has. in my opin.
| ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. l know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative hunid-
itv are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
| imperative to send tubercular patients
to an altitude of 1000 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to be
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 5000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is 2 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptional cases. The city is situated III
a basin near the underground SAINTS
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled III
bv massive mountain ranges. 0kAe
north is the Santa Catalina range t0
the east, the Rincon; to the south, th<
Santa Rita; and on the west, the xuc-
son. Each of these ranges has an Alta-
tude of s, 900 feet at least. Mounk Le-
mon. the highest peak of the Catallna6
has an elevation of 10000 feet, ald
Mount Wrightson in the SantA litaa
1 reaches an altitude of nearly ,Q08a
feet
"Thc scenery at Tucson is AZ in1pf<.
sive as anywhere in the Rocky ullOG
tains. and the gorgeous sunrise snd sd
set beggar description. sss
During the nine months, octobe
Junc, inclusive, 1s94-5, these wext 1lk
!. twenty-five cloudy days, and ni1e
.fthese were in one month. Snme
, the transparency of the atfnose
be had when STATE that, af M
and with the unaided ~, u L. II
. Venus when it was hut ten
! | Of the snn."