The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-11

many (as 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
'nrics and wounds heal very rapidly;
contagious diseases are usually very
mild. There has been no epidemic, cx-
cept III whooping cough, for years.
The winter months, from the middle
OF September to the first Of May. are in
this locality the finest III the world. One
bright sunshiny day succeeds another;
the nights are cool and cxhlarating, the
whole country green with the richest
verduc and the brightest flowers. Truly
ii is JOY To live.
AT present have never known a 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 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."
Dir. II. W. Fenncr, of Tucson. Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K K, saws
Tucson is a city of 10 900 iEha 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-
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
26" and SO rcspe, lively. The rainfall
Is small and but little irrigation 10 car
ried on. The water supply 10 excellent.
The summers are long. the therm ometer
ranges high. but the low degree of humid
| ity makes the clear warmth toierable,
and the mos, healthful part Of the year.
! >u's., kes and heat prostratlons ARE
uuAue The ciinafc ot Tucson has
t'ccr 1@ expet3enee % he Tiartlcua
benz ~,..} TO uess ss,se> ct puinon-
..c ule3e, espS}slz those ot the
g. 4a Fl" E.st sbeferla' pr'aaas
I an. ...aIA a. kogsas, vi iuAson. says.
| My experience has impressed upon
me the necessity for out-d DOR life in the
/ Oi NhtNiNut~USSs AA
order that the patient may live contin-
uouSly in the open air for a period of sew
cral months, or, for that matter, for a
year. or several years, climate Is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
| drv. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap-
! proach to il - Arizona.
| Physicians rars'v send their patents
| to the arid -egiors curing E.1n=ler lad
this ] consider a great .-istakc. 1he
patients should be sent to the arid re-
gious SO 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 10 apparent that
the case is hopeless.
~iany physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter,
apparently with view of sending them
to dry 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 tubercular and asthmatie 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 It far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthisical patients. think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there 10 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 Irrigation
and malaria go together
The city of Tucson has. in my opin-
ion. advantages as health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. know of no locality
where such 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 tuberculaf uatients
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients rcquired to be
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 3, 900 feet. The altikude of
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that oeetns to
be amply high for all bnt The most en-
ceptional cases. The city II sikuated III
a basin near the undcr0f0sand Santa
Cruz river. 1t is complcte3y walled ID
bv massive mountain fanRe1. 70 the
north is the Santa CataIina range: to
the east, the Rincon; ID thdn0uth, the
Santa Rita; and on the Weuf. the Tne-
son. Each of these ranges ~ m alki-g
tude OF 5000 feet at IeAst. Mount L.
mon. the highest peak Of the CataIiuae.
has an elevation of "a. 600 feet. and
Mount Wrightson ii ne Santa Ritaas;
reaches an altitude III neax1y u, 1,00Q|
feet 81 sSsx
"The scenery at Tnrscsl II . izl1,rel
sive as anywhere II tke IRociy xsn1,
tains. and the gorgsoue ss1ri1e anf
During the M nonthD oetcs 16
June. inclusive, l3o1 fe Nexe 1|
| twenty-five clo0ll4 daSa md aI1I = q
these were in u16 = n )ome "a
the transparcncy of fhen = q
be had wheu kG<e nfs &k&
Venus when & - - 49,
of the ausa 81 ahf hfa III &3sS2