The Tucson citizen., 1902-03-21


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
Iuries 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 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 a 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 10 die among strang-
/ ers."
DR.. II. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K. r.. says
/ Tucson is "a city of 5000 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2, 400 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of tho 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 56o rcspeA 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 OF humid
3 ity makes the clear warmth tolerabie.
! and the most heaithtul part of the year.
! Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate OF Tucson has
/ been found bv experience TO he particul.
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
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 contiu-
uousiy in the open air for period of scv.
erai months, or, for that matter, for
| year, or several years, climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it is Arizona.
Physicians rars'v send their paints
to the arid -sR.cns hari1g s-n=e; III
| this ] consider a great --.stake. -hs
patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence of in.
fiction from the tubcrcie bacillus, and
should be made 10 remain there until
they arc well. or until IL is sapparent 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 si
the Atlantic coast. and many OF the best
physieinns in California regularly send
their tubetcular and asthmatlS patients
to Tucson. California is a beautiful.
country. bat the togs which come IN
rom The sea, and the ernanations from
the vas, irrigated regions, make II tar
Inferior TO the inland desert regions foi
phf hlsicai patients. think II may bt
assumed as general rule that whcr
ever there rs irrigation there Is "a high
degree of relative humidity. and pa atients
suffering from pulmonary Iphthisis
should never he seut to an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed, some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation /
and malaria go together.
! THE city nj Tucson has in my opin
ion. advantages as health resort
which can not be equalled anyw here 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. II is no longer considered
imperative TO send tubcrcuiar patients !
to an altitude ot 5 900 feet. or over. In !
fact, clinical experience has proven that /
more frequently patients required 10 bS |
sent to an altitude or less, rather than !
more than 1900 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is q 400 feet and that seems to
he amply high for all hpt the most ex
ccptional cases The city is situated in
basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled IN
bv massive mountain ranges. To the
north is the Santa Catalina range, 10
the cast, the kincon: to the south, the
Santa Rita; and ON the west, the Tue.
son. Each OF these ranges has an siti
tude of S 900 feet at least. Mount lie
mon, the highest peak OF the Catainas,
has mn elevation Of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas.
reaches an altitude of nearly l1,o00
feet.
"Thc scenery at Tucson is ms impres-
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
rains. and the gorgeous sunrise aud sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
June. inclusive, 1S9t-5, there were but
Twenty-Five cloudy days, and nine oi
these were in one month. Some idea oi
the transparency of the atmosphere may
be had when state that, at midday
and with the unaided eve, have seen
Venus when il was hut-ten degrees east
of the srn."
DR.. n, II. Matas. n Physician of II
wears practice in this City says
"Sincc consumptives must depend on the
resisting forces of nature for the cure OF