The Tucson citizen., 1902-02-03

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III 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 whooplng cough, for years.
/ THE winter months. from the middle
of September to the first of May, are in
this locality the finest i'll the world One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
I the nights are cool and exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
Serdne and the brightest flowers. Truly
/ it is a Joy to live.
AT present have never known a per-
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andiocating
/ 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. ". Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific K. r., says
! Tucson is a city of 10000 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-
1 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 Sc 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 tolerabie,
and the most healthfrl part of the year.
Sunstrokes aud heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmoa-
airy phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or prc-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 tor a period of sew
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years. a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it is Arizona.
Physicians rars'v send their pa
to the arid -e2:ons snri1g :-xu:-e- nd
this | consider a great --istakc. 4he
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 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 1t 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
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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 a health resort
which can not be equalied anywhere in
North America. / know of no locality
where such moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative humid.
L. IL. Ia L.
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of s. 900 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 e.
ceptional 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; to
the east, the Rincon; to the south, tlae
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue-
son. Each of these ranges has m alti-
tude of 1000 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. the highest peak Of the CatalinAs,
has an elevation of 10000 fcet, md
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritao
reaches an altitude Of nearly ~ ,O0(0
feet. ~
"The scenery at Tucson Il % impres-
sive as anywhere in the Rociy ssoui6
tains, and the gorgeous aunxise and sun-
set beggar description.
During the nine months Octo a
June, inclusive, 1904, the1e bGk
Twenty-Five cloudy daya, ard ui1le M
these were in one raonth. eoGnS IT. q
the transparency Of ~ at1paep
4 be had when ststt TIT ot ~
and with the unalded eye i 6Ne -
Venus when 1t was hut tn deRreG ea1t
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