The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-23

many (as the writer) sleep out during
the whole ye"r. 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
lures and wounds heal very rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mid There has been no epidemic, ex.
cept in whooping cough, for years.
| he winter months, from the middle
OF September to the first of May, are in
TINS locality the finest i'll the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
vcrdue and the brightest flowers. Truly
1t is JOY to live.
AT present have never known 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.. II. w. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
ot the Southern Pacific K. r., says
Tucson is city of 10000 inha abitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 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 560 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 healthfu 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 pulmon-
ary 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-
/
eral months, or, for that matter, for
year, or several years, climate is re-
| quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
/ proach to ii is Arizona.
Physicians rare'v send their pa
to the arid -eg.ors 5nri1g f-rn=1er Id
this | consider a great =istakc. .hs
| patients should be sent to the arid re
gions so soon as there is evidence of in
lection from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made To remain there until
t they are well. or until it is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
'tMany physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter
apparently with view OF sending them
10 dry climate The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater. than that y,
the Atlantic coast, ard 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 il far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think 1t may be
assumed as general rule that wher-
. ever there is irrigation there Is high
; degree Of relative 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 'irrig tion
and malaria go together.
''Thc city o, Tucson has. in my opin-
ION. advantages as a health resort
3 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
$ nv are combined with the same latitude
D and altitude. II is no longer considered
i ;npcratiye to send tubercular patients
e 10 an altitude OF s. 900 feet, or over. In
i fact, clinical experience has proven that
o more frequently patients required 70 t<
e sen, to en altitude or less, rather than
:, more than 4, 900 feet. The altitude o.
I Tucson is 400 feet and that seems to
he amply high for all but the most ex
centional cases. The city rs situated II
basin near the underground Santf
: Cruz river. 1t is completely walled II
- nv massive mountain ranges. 10 th'
north il the Santa Catalina range t'
> the east, the Rincon; TO the south, tn
+ Santa Rita; and on the west, the ,c
son. Each of these ranges has an elti
, tudc of 1000 feet at least. Mount lie
< mon. tn. highest peak of the Cataiinas
+ has an elevation OF 10000 feet, AM
u Mount Wrightson in the Santa ktas
reaches an altitude OF nearly ll,oo
=. feet.
"The scenery at Tucson is as impre'
s;ye as anywhere in the Rocky monf
C. tains, and the gorgeous sunrise ana sur
is set heggar description.
X During the nine months October t
III Juue inclusive, 1S9+~5, there were hu
" twenty-five cloudy days, and nine
1g these were in one month. Some idea
nd the TRANSPARENCY of the atmosphere ma
h he had when state that, at m'dd a
IL and with the unaided eye, have see
mt Venus when it was hut ten degrees eas
no of the sun."
;se Dr. II. Matas, Physician OF
,,e wears practice in this City, says,
- "Sincc consumptives must depend on u
~ resisting forces OF nature tor the cure
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