The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-31

many Gas the writer) sleep out during
/ the whole yer. There are not five DAYS
Ill the whole year but the most delicate
invalid can spend part of the day, 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 i'll whooping cough, for years.
THE winter months, from the middle
of September to the first of May, arc 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 Joy to live.
! "At present | have never known a per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
in the altitude suited to their particular
ease 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.. H. W. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific X. r., says
| Tucson is city of 1000 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 braciug,
/ the humidity being exceedingly low; the
| yearly minimum and maximum being
go and So .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 healthfrl 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 i'll the
treatment Of pulmonary tuberculosis. in
c1ef .At he patient may hive contin-
ronSly IN the open air for a period ofsev-
erai 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 pain
to the arid -eg;ons caring ;1sn-1e1 I'D
this | consider a great -~istake. lhe
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
to dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater, than that of
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 emanations from
the vast irrigated regions, make it far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it may be
assumed as general rule that wher-
ever LHtIS Is tuSIC iS u uikh
degree of relative humidity. and dpatients
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. 81
THE CITY of Tucson has. in my opin.
ion. advantages as health resort
which can not be equaIed anywhere in
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 tubercuaT 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 in
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walked in
by 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-
tude of 6, 900 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. TIL. highest peak of the Catalinas,
has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ntas,
reaches an altitude of nearly fl, ,000
feet. s.
The scenery at Tucson il a. ixaprke.
sive as anywhere in the Rocky MQr3lr
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and auh-
set beggar description.
During the nine months, 0ct0hx NJ
June. inclusive, 1S94-5, there Nege sb4t
twenty-five cloudy days, and
these were in one month. Sons jde4 d
the transparency of the atnaoeph 10y
be had when state that, af /
and with the unaided eye, Eb4t&Se{n
. Venus when it was hut ten dd1teee -
of the SUM-