The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-22

many las the writer sleep out during
the whole year. 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
inrles and wounds heal very rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex-
cept III whooping cough, for years.
The winter months from the middle
ot September 10 the irst OF Nav. are in
this locality the finest III the world. One
! bright Sunsiiiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhilarating: the
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
/ il is "a Joy to live.
Al present have never known a per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages of pulmonary disease andlocatiug
/ III the altitude suited 10 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. Fl ". Fenner of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific K K. saws
Tucson Is a city OF II 900 inhabitants,
on the main line OF the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude . 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
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26~ and So respe, lively. The rainfall
rs small and but little irrigation is car
RED on. The water supply is excellent
The summers are long, the thermometer
ranges high. bat the low degree Of humid
,ty makes the clear warmth tolerabie.
and the most hcalthful part OF the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particui-
arly beneficial TO most cases OF pulmou.
AIRY phthisis. especially those OF the
CARRIER or prc-tubcrcular 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-
uous!y IN the open air for period of sew
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wear. or several years. n climate is re-
quircd which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest APP
proach to II is Arizona.
! Physicians rarc'v send their paints
/ to the and -tg:cns curing '-sn=er I'D
! this | consider a great ,--4stake. he
patients should be sent TO the arid re-
/ gtons SO soon as there Is evidence of in-
I fiction from the tuberclc bacillus, and
I should bc made to remain there until
/ they arc 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 "A dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater. than that ut
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 a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. andpatients
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 health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. | know of no locality
where such moderate winter climate
and such a low degree of relative humid
itv are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of 5000 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 1900 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most cx-
ceptional cases. The city is situated in
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled 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 oi lhSsc faHSSs Aas - asAx-
tude of 5000 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon tn. highest peak of the CatAlinAs,
has IN elevation of 10000 feet, md
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude of nearly 11,000
feet.
The scenery at Tucson ii 10 hnpreo-
sive as anywhere in the Rocky rnO6r-
tains. and the gorgeous sunrise Snd suzl.
set bcggar description.
During the nine month";, Oet0hr to
June, inclusive, 1896, there were huk
twenty-five cloudy days, and - q
these were in one month. Sonne en ots
the transparency of the akx1oo ~ 1no5
be had when fstatr thatY m 1 n
and with the unaided e1es 1xe l Gk
Venus when Il was hat ~ 0<SSS e.
Of the sun. ~