The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-20

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custom to sleep out of doors from the
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 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
inns locality the finest i'll the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool aud exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
yerdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
it is JOY to live.
AT present have never known a per
son coming to this Territory in the early
stages OF pulmonary disease andlocating
III 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."
DR.. H. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
OF the Southern Pacific X. r., says
/ Tucson is a city of 10000 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2,40O 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
26o and So 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 tolerable,
and the most healthful part of the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate oil Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
| arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
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 a period ofsev
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years. climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
proach to it Is Arizona.
physicians rureIv send their patents
to the arid -egioos curing SKINNER I'D
this | consider a great -istake. khe
patients should be sent to the arid re
gions 80 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 seuding them
, to a dry climate The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
{ in some instances greater, than that %.
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
| their tubercular and asthmatil patients
2 to Tucson. California is a beautiful,
country, but the fogs which come in
!
! the vast irrigated regions, make it far
|. inferior to tho inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it may be
. assumed as a general rule that whcr-
. ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. and patients
, suffering from pulmonary phthlsis
should never be sent to an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed, some of the California
/ L ku,v sRs1ln rcd 4h14
and malaria go together
THE city ut Tucson has. in my opin-
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equallcd 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 tubercuiaI patients
to an altitude of S, 900 feet. or over. In
fact. clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required TO bc
sent to en- altitude or less. rather than
, more than 5000 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems 10
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptionai 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, the
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Iuc'
: son. Each of these ranges has an alti-
!, tude of s, 900 feet at least. Mount Le-
: mon. the highest peak OF the Catalinas.
= has IN elevation of 10000 feet, and
= Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
: reaches an altitude OF nearly ,oo0
). feet.
THE scenery at Tucson is as impress
sive as anywhere in the Rocky noun
: tains, and the gorgeous sunrlse and sun
IS set beggar description.
& During the nine months, October tc
II Tune, inclusive, 1S9+-5. there were but
Y twenty-five cloudy days, and nine q
these were in one month. Some idea o
d the transparency OF the atmosphere may
+ be had when state that, at midd ay
l. and with the unaided eye, have seer
t Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
u !, OF the sun"
:. Dr n H. Matas. Physician OF Il