The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-16

| CT NhN ltiICs IL Is uncommon
custom to sleep out of doors from the
hiiudie May until September. and
many las the writer sleep out during
Inc whoie yer. There are not five days
IN the whole year but the most delicate
,hVaId 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
hlld. here has been no epidemic, ex-
cept IN whooping cough, for years.
The winter months, from the middle
on 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 we'll 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 city of 10, 900 habitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2,40O 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 So spettively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
RED on The water supply is excellent.
he 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 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 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, a 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 -egions :uriag '-Hn-aer Id
! this | consider a great --istake. Ihs |
patients should be sent to the arid re
| gions SO soon as there is evidence of in !
1 fiction from the tubercle bacillus, and !
/ 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 beautiful,
country, but the fogs which come in
the vast irrigated regions. make it far
inferior to tho inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it may he
Aassumed as a general rule that wher-
| ever there is irrigation there is high |
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.
1.-The city ot Tucson has. in my opin- |
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equaled anywhere in
North America. know of no locality
where such 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 tubercuar patients
to an altitude of !, 900 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to DC
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 3 900 feet. The attitude oi
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ccptional cases. The city is situated IN
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled 10
bv massive mountain ranges. 10 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 s. 900 feet at least. Mount Le-
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 11,OO0
feet.
"The scenery at Tucson Is as impress
s;ye as any where i'll the Rocky noun
tains and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
Tune. inclusive 1S9+-5. there were but
TWENTY-FIVE cloudy days, and nine OF
these were in one month. Some idea OF
the transparency of the atmosphere may
he had when state that, at midda ay
and with the unaided eye, have seen
Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
of the sum-"
Ne \ II Matas, a Physician OF II