The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-21


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 i'll
this locality the finest in the world. One
bright Sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhilaratipg; the
whole country green with the richest
vcrdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
II Is a JOY to live.
AT present have never known per
son coming 70 this Territory III the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
in the altitude suited 10 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."
/ Dr. II. ". Fenner. of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific r. K, says
Tucson is 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-
querors. II 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
26' 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-
Itv makes the clear warmth tolerable.
and the most healthfnl part OF the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown The climate of Tucson has
been found bv experience TO be particul-
arly beneficial to most cases of pulrnon-
arv phthisiS. especially those of the
, earlier or pre-tubercular periods.
$ DR.. Mark A. Rogers. of Tucson. says:
My experience has impressed upon
e me the necessity for outdoor life IN the
Il treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. In
a order that the patient may live contin-
I uously in the open air for period ofsev-
: 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 II Is Arizona.
"physicians rare'~ send their paints
to the avid -tgious Ssfr;1g s-.1n-=e1 nd
this | consider a great --lstake. : he
patients should be sent to the arid re-
gions so soon as there is evidence of IN
fiction from the tubercie bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they are well, or until it rs 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 drv 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 tubercuiar and asthmatic patients
TO Tucson. California Is 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 general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. ndpatients
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 cqualled anywhere in
North America. know OF no locality
where such moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative humid
itv are combined with the same latitude
, and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative TO send tuberculaT patients
to an altitude of 5000 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to oe
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
i. more than 5000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is ., 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptional cases The city is situated In
! n 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 of these ranges has an alti-
; tude of 200 feet at least. Mount Ise-s
mon the hie chest peak of the Catalinaas
has IN elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ntaay
reaches an altitude of nearly Ii 0O0i
!. feet.
1.-THE scenery at Tucson is a. inapree-.
sive as anywhere in the Rocky m0un
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and spl
set beggar description.
: Daring the nine months, Qctee q!
> June, inclusive, 1S94-5, there Nex hu1
: TWENTY-FIVE cloudy days, md
: these were in ono mouth. Sone
: the transparency Of the atmoep u
3 be had when / state thak, ak ~
!, and with the unaided ~, + hnN< -
= Venus when il was hut t<n
4 of the SUM-