The Tucson citizen., 1902-03-04

| uliuuN u May until september, anu
many las 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
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex
cept in whooping cough, for years.
1.-THE winter months, from the middle
of September to the first of May, are i'll
this locality the finest in the world. One
bright sAnshiny day succeeds another; |
the nights are cool and exhiarating; the
whole country green with the richest
vcrdue 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 andlocating !
i'll 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. H. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
III lHC southern ~ says
Tucson is 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
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
260 and 56' 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 healthful part OF the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are |
unknown. The climate of Tucson has |
been found by experience to be pnrticul- /
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
AIRY phthisis. especially those ofsthe
earlier or pre~tubercular periods.
DIR. Mark A. Rogers. of Tucson. says:
My experience has impressed upon
me the necessity for out door life in the |
treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. In /
order that the patient may live coutin-
uously in the open air for period of sev-
eral months, or, for that matter. for a
year, or several years, a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and |
| dry. Such a climate the United States |
| docs not possess, bat the nearest ap- /
| proach to it is Arizona.
Physicians rare'v send their patents
to the arid -eg.osls euri3g SKINNER 1d
this consider a great .=!stake. his |
patients should be sent to the arid re
| 4 fsrs snft
fiction from the tubcrcle 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 dry climate, The relative humidity
in southern California is as great. and
in some instances greater. than that ri
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the lSest
physicians in California regularly send
their tubescnlar and asthmatic patients
to Tucson. California il a beautiful
country but the fogs which come in
rom the sea, and the enanations from
the vast irrigated regions. make il far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
pithisical patients. think IT may be
assumed as general rule that witer
ever there il irrigation there is a high
degree Of relative humidity, and patients
suffering from pulmonary phthIsis
should never he sent to an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed, some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together.
"Thc city ri Tucson has. in my opin-
ion, advantages as health resort
J -, Ia ia1 ha~<s
North America. know OF no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative humid
ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative TO send tuberculaI patients
to an altitude of 3 00t 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 900 feet. The altitude oil
Tucson is q 400 feet, and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most OK
ccptional cases. The city is situated IN
n 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 alti-
tudc of S, 900 feet at least. Mount Lee
mon, the highest peak of the Catalinas,
has IN elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude of nearly 1,ooe
feet.
"The scenery at Tucson is as impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
Tune, inclusive 1895, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine oi
these were in one month. Some idea OF
the transparency of the atmosphere may
be had when state that, at midd ay
and with the unaidcSi eye, have seen
Venus when it was but ten degrees east
of the SUM-"
Dir, N, II. Matas, n Physician OF II
wears practice i'll this City, says
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