The Tucson citizen., 1902-08-21

many las the writer) sleep out during
the whole yesr. 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
1uries 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 i'll the world. One
bright sunshiny Gay succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
it is jOv to live.
AT present l have never known per
son coming to this Territory II the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
in the altitude suited to their particular
case that did not get well; nor have l
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. H w. Fenner 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-
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
I,o1 foil
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 othumid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable,
and the most healthful part of the year.
SunstrOkes and heat prostratlons are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be partlcul-
arly beneficial to most cases OF pulrnon-
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 period ofsev-
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
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 rareIv send their patents
to the arid -eg;ous ,ktri1g :'2en-1er I'D
this | consider a great 1-istake. 4ht
,, patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence OF in
l. l.
should be made to remain there until
,, they are we'll, 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 %
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatic patients
to Tucson. California is "a beautifui
country, but the fogs which come in
rom the sea, and the emanations from
the vast irrigated regions make it far
, inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. l think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is 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.
"The city OF Tucson has, in my opin-
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
| NY rs loo1
where such a moderate winter climate
= and such low degree of relative humid.
itv are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t rs no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of 5000 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
3 more frequently patients required to be
e sent to an altitude or less, rather than
;, more than 5000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is z. 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex
: ceptional cases. The city is situated in
e a basin near the underground Santa
n Cruz river. 1t is completely walled in
s. bv massive mountain ranges. TO the
s north is the Santa Catalina range; to
|. the east, the Rincon; to the south, the
e Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
Y son. Each of these ranges has an alti-
q tude of 8, 1000 feet at least. Mount Le-
+ mon, the highest peak of the Catalinas,
d has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
l. Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas
le reaches an altitude of nearly II ,OOG
G. feet.
"The scenery at Tucson is as impres.
r. sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
i tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
% % set beggar description.
n During the nine months, October tc
" June, inclusive, 1894-5, there were but
70 twenty live cloudy days, and nine O
d these were in one month. Some idea O
b. the transparency of the atmosphere may
H. be had when state that, at midd ay
1T and with the unaided eye, have seer
i'd Venus when it was but ten degrees east
Id of the sum-"
te DR.. N, H. Matas, a Physician of Il
te years practice in this City, says
x ''Since consumptives must depend on tn,