The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-30

middle of May until September, and
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 ofdoors. In this climate in
iuries and wounds heal very rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mid. 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 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 TO die among strang-
ers."
Or. H. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K, r., says
Tucson is city of 1O, 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,
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yearly minimum and maximum being
26S and So pe,tively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
The summers are long, the thermometer
| 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 pulrnon-
airy phthisis. especially those of the |
earlier or pre-tubercular periods.
DR.. Mark A. Rogers, of Tucson, saws:
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 of sew /
erai months, or, for that matter, for a |
year, or several years, a 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 rar:'v send their patents
to the arid -eg;ons ,1tri7g s-sn-1er Id
this | consider a great --istake. .hs |
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 a dry climate. The relative humidity |
in southern California is as great and /
in some instances greater, than that u.
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best I
physicians in California regularly send |
their tubercular and asthmatic 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
NUIGBfOt W thA AGkioAS AOt /
phthisicai patients. think it may be I
assumed 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.
"The city oi Tucson has. in my opin-
ion, advantages as a health resort /
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. l know of no locality !
where such q moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative humid
ity are combined with the same latitude I
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercular 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 5000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is 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 in
bv massive mountain ranges. To the |
north Is the SANTA Natattua range, 10
the east, the Rincon; to the south, the
Santa Rita; and ON the west, the Tue
son. Each of these ranges has an slti
tude of 5000 feet at least. Mount Le !
mon. the highest peak of the Cataiinas,
has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude of nearly 11,oOG
feet.
"The scenery at Tucson is as impres-
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
tains. and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
Tune, inclusive, 1S94-5, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine OF
these were in one month. Some idea OF
the transparency of the atmosphere may
be had when state that, at midd ay
and with the unaided eye. have seen
Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
of the sum-"
Or. N, II. Matas, Physician OF II
years practice in this City, says
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