The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-30

many las the writer sleep out during
the whole year. There are not FIVE days
III the whole year but the most delicate
/ invalid can spend part OF the day, at
I least, out OF doors. In this climate in
iurics 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
OF September to the first of Nav. are in
this locality the finest III 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
/ ii is JOY to live.
AT present have never known a per-
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease indicating
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 10 this
or other sections to die among strang-
ers.'
DR.. H. w. Fenner, of Tucson. Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific K. r., saws
Tucson is a city of 10 900 inhabitants,
on the main line Of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2,+00 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 respe.t .tiveiy. 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 ofhurnid-
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 particui-
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
AIRY phthisis. especially those of the
1, earlier or pre-tubercular periods.
s DR.. Mark A. Rogers. of Tucson, SAYS:
My experience has impressed upon
{ me the necessity for outdoor life in the
1 treatment ofpulmonary tuberculosis. In
order that the patient may live contin-
uously IN the open air for period ofsev-
eral months, or, for that matter, for q
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 APP
proach to it Is Arizona.
Physicians rare'v send their paints
to the arid -eg.ocs Snri1g F-n=.er nd
this | consider great --sstake. 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 a 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 beautiful
country, but the fogs which come in
rom the sea, and the ernanations 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. 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 Of Tucson has. in my opin-
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. know of no locality
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and such low degree of relative humid
ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiaT patients
to an altitude of 5 900 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 thar 8 1000 feet. The altitude of
,on is {, 400 feet. and that seems to
II amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptional 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 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, 600 feet at least. Mount Lee
mon. tn. highest peak of the Satalinas,
has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
4 Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
! reaches an altitude of nearly II, ,O00
I feet.
"The scenery at Tucson Is as imprcs-
sive az anywhere in the Rocky noun-
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise snd sszr-
set beggar descriptions. s
4 ~s.During the nine months, 0ctober to
June, inclusive, 1S94-5, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and ujlle ct
these were in one month. Some d. Of
the transparency of the atmosphele 10y
be had when state that, At midd9y,
and with the unaidcd eye, ! ha1e -
J Venue wher It was hat Ten degrtea e11t
of the s1sr0 SSsEs