The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-18

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
least, ont of doors. In this climate in
iuries and wounds heal very rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, ex-
ccpt IN whooping cough, for years.
The winter months, from the middle
OF September to the FIRST of Nav, are in
tins 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
il is JOY TO live.
AT present | have never known a per-
son coming TO this Territory in the early
stages 1oi pulmonary disc ease andlocatinR
IN the altitude suited to their particular
case that did not get well: nor have
known OF one iii the second stage that
did not improve. But ] cannot refrain
from raising my voice against the out
rage sf sending advanced cases TO this
or other sections to die among strang-
crS."
Dr. II. w. Fenner, of Tucson. Surgeon
of the Southern Pacihc X. r.. SAYS
Tucson is a city of O 900 iuha bitants,
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-
qucrors. 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
26s and Sc respeN lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irr1ga tion is car
| red on. The water supply is excellent.
| The summers are long, the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree of humid
| ity makes the clear warmth tolerable
! and the most hcalthful 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 pulmon-
airy phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubevcular periods.
Dr. Marx A. Rogers. of Tucson, SAYS:
| My experience has impressed upon
me the necessity for out-d DOR life in the
treatment OF pulmonary tuberculosis. In
order that the patient may live contin-
| uously in the open air for n period OF sew
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
| docs not possess. but the nearest ap-
proach tot is Arizona.
PLY sicians rareiv send their pa ;-nts
to the arid -egsor ,uri7g na=ser nd
this consider a great stake. Ahe
patients should be sent to the arid re-
gious SO soon as there is evidence of in
fcction from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they arc well. or until ii is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
Many physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter,
apparently with view OF sending them
80 dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California Is as great, and
IN some instances greater, than that of
the Atlantic coast, apd many of the best
physicians an 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 II far
Inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. | think IL may be
assumed as a 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 opiu-
ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. l know OF no locality
where such a 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 tubercuiaS 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 thau
more than 8, 900 feet. The altitude 04
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most e.
ceptional cases. The city 10 situated ii
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled III
bv massive mountain ranges. 10 the
north is the Santa Catalina rmngs; 30
the east, the Rincon; to the south, the
Santa Rita; and ON the We4f. tue 1ug-
son. Each of these ranges has N alti-
tudc of 1000 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon. the highest peak Of the CAkalinas,
has IN elevation of 10000 fcef, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
reaches an altitude Of nenf3y ~, ,000
feet. IS Z
1.-THE scenery at Tucson u - isnpres
sive as anywhere Ia the Rocky nAoGan-
o...s <t,a evrx,-rnexx.sa
set beggar descriptions.
During the nine m,ontHS, 0cto
Tune, inclusive, 1694-6, t1exe MSIe
twenty-five cloudy deys, e1nd nine
these were In one gnopth, p1pe
the transpafency of IN 4 q n al
be had when Iafat6 II I1 - H
and with tie uEn - ~ I 1li1Se o
Venus when 4 wa6E Il 1If \ 4 ~
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