The Tucson citizen., 1902-04-29

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/ many (as the writcr) sleep out during
the whole yesr. 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
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 in
this locality the finest in the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds anotf er;
whole country green with the richest
verdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
it is JOY to live.
AT present have never known n 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 we'll 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.. H, W. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific X. r., says
Tucson is a city of 10, 900 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. 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 respectively. 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 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 pulnon-
airy phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-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 for period ofsev-
erai months, or, for that matter, for
year, or several years, a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
| dry. Such q climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it 10 Arizona.
Physicians rarely send their patents
1 to the arid -sgions curing ssxnnsr .1d
this i consider a great S.istake. Ihs
patients should be sent to the arid re-
4 gious so soon as there 10 evidence of in
4 lection from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they are well, or until it 10 sapparent that
the case 10 hopeless.
4 "Many physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter
apparently with view of sending them
to q dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California 10 as great, and
in some instances greater, than that o.
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthmatis patients
. to Tucson. California Is q beautifui
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
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assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there 10 irrigation there is high
degree of frelative humidity. and patients
suffering from pulmonary phthisis
should never be sent to an irrigated dis
, trict. Indeed, some of the California
. physicians have declared that irrigation
aud malaria go together
"The city ot Tucson has. in my opin.
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. / know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
: and such low degree Of relative humid.
ity are combined with the same latitude
, and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
: imperative to send tubercular patients
to an altitude of 6. 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 Z, 1000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is z, 400 feet. and that seems tc
be amply high for all bnt 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 ths
! north il the Santa Catalina range; &c
the east, LuS NtnNOH, ~ Liz SoASht $Ass
!. Santa Rita: and on the west, the Tue
!. son. Each of these ranges has an alti
S, tude of S 900 feet at least. Mount LIE
: : mon. the highest peak of the Catalinas
! has an elevation of 10000 feet, ane
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas
= reaches an altitude of nearly 11,oot
: feet.
1.-THE scenery at Tucson is as impres
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
: tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
s set beggar description.
g During the nine months, October t.
n Tune. inclusive, 1S9+-5, there were bu
y twenty-five cloudy days, and nine
6 these were in one month. Some idea O
d the transparency of the atmosphere ma,
/ be had when state that, at midd ay
l. and with the unaided eye, | have seer
It Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
q of the SUM-"
e. DIR. N. H. Matas, Physician OF l
70 wears practice in this City says
1.c:.,n, couSu,untives must deDeud on tn