The Tucson citizen., 1902-02-21

incbrlated at the time. 1t is Uncommon
custom to sleep out of doors from the
middle ,t 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
ieast, out OF doors. In this climate in
lures 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
OF September to the first of May, are in
TINS 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
1t is Joy to live.
AT present have never known 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
crs."
/ Or. II. W. Fcnner, of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific r. r., says
Tucson is a city of 10, 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
qucrors. 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
% and So respe, lively, The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car.
RED on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long. the THERMOMETERS
ranges high, but the low degree ofhumd-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerablc.
and the most hcalthfui part OF the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate OF Tucson has
been found bv experience to be particul-
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon
AIRY phthsis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubercular periods.
DR.. Mark A. Rogers. of Tucson, says:
My experience has impressed upor
me the necessity for outdoor life i'll thu
treatment OF pulmonary tuberculosis. Ii
order that the patient may live contin
uously in the open air for period ofsev
eral months. or, for that matter, for {
year. or several years, climate is re
CURED which is continuously warm ant
. dry. Such a climate the United State
does not possess. but the nearest APP
, preach to it is Arizona.
physicians rars'v send their pa mt
to the aid -sx:oas caring t-1n=le: Al
this | consider great --.stake. h
patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence oil III
: fiction from the tubcrcle bacillus, an
should he made to remain there unit
: they are well. or until il is apparent tha
the case is hopeless.
n MANY ply sicians in the east ordc
/ patients to California for the winte
c apparently with view OF sending thci
:. to a dry climate. The relative humidit
in southern California is as great, an
% in some instances grea ter. than that
the Atlantic coast. and many of the bs-
: physicians i'm California regularly ser
!. their tubercular and asthmatie patton
- To Tucson. California is a beautif
country, but the fogs which come
rom the sea, and the emanatious fro
!, the vast irrigated regions, make it q
u inferior to tho inland desert regions {,
- phthisicai patients. think ii may
assumed as "a general rule that whe
&c ever there 10 irrigation there is a hie
u degree of relative humidity. ndpaticn
= suffering from pulmonary phthis
I should never be sent to an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed, some of the Calitorn
y physicians have declared that 'irrigatio
!" and malaria go together
THE city of Tucson has. in my OPT
ion, advantages as health rcso
is which can not be equalled anywhere
IS North America. know OF no locali'
y where such moderate winter china
j. and such low degree OF relative humi'
Is ity are combined with the same latit az
70 and altitude. II is no longer cousidere
j. imperative to send tuberculaI patien
ie to an altitude of s. 900 feet, or over.
n fact, clinical experience has proven thu
IS more frequently patients required to
ic sent to an altitude or less, rather tina
c. more than 5000 feet. The altitude I
1t Tucson il 2,4O0 feet. and that seems
be amply high for all but the most e:
ccptionai cases. The city is situated
r a basin near the underground SAINT
ie Cruz river. II is completely walled
~ bv massive mountain ranges. To I'll
s. north is the Santa Catalina range;
es the east, the Rincon; to the south. Il
n Santa Rita; aud on the west, the Tu
re son. Each of these ranges has an oil
y tude of S. 900 feet at least. Mount l.
. mon, the highest peak of the Catalina
er has m elevation OF 10000 feet. AT
10 Mount Wrightson in the Santa Rita
+ reaches an altitude OF nearly ll,W
- feet.
1.-THE scenery at Tucson is as impre
sive as anywhere in the Rocky mou
C. tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and SUI
is set beggar description.
,g During the nine months, October
In Iune. inclusive, 1S94-5, there were b
" twenty-five cloudy days, and nine
ig these were in one month. Some idea
I'd the transparency of the atmosphere ma
h. be had when state that, at mldd
IL and with the unaided eye. have SCI