The Tucson citizen., 1902-03-05

many Gas the writer sleep out during
the whole yer. 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 i'll 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 another;
the nights are cool and exhilarating; the
whole country green with the richest
verdue 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
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-
crs."
DR.. II. W. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific K. r., says
Tucson is city of 10, 900 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2,4OO 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 respectively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
RED on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long. the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree 0ihumd-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable,
and the most ltealthtul part OF the year.
Sunstrokes aud heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of 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-tubcrcular periods.
DR.. Mark A. Rogers, of Tucson saws:
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 OF sew
erai months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a 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 1t Is Arizona.
"Phy sicians rarely send their pa: 'nts
TO the arid -eg.ors airing :-n=4e: I'D
this consider a great -%tstake. .hs
patients should be sent 10 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 is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
Many physicians in the cas-, order
patients TO California for the winter
apparently with "A view OF sending them
to a dry climate The relative humidity
i'll southern California IS as great. and
/ in some instances greater, than that ri
| the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
/ their tubercular and asthmatit paticnts
! 10 Tucson. California il beautiful.
country, but the togs which come in
/ rom the sea, and the enanatious from
the vast irrigated regions. make it far
inferior TO the inland desert regions tor
phthisical patients. think II may b<
assumed AZ a general rule that wher
ever there is irrigation there is a 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 tubercniaT patients
to an altitude OF 5000 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 thas 900 feet. The altitude OF
Tucson is 2, 400 feet, and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex |
ceptional 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, thes Rincon; to the south, the |
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
son. Each Of these ranges has an ati |
tude of 1000 feet at least. Mount lie |
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 IL, 000
feet.
1.-THE scenery at Tucson is as impress
sivc as anywhere in the Rocky noun |
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun I
set bcggar description.
During the nine months, October to /.
June, inclusive, 1S9+-5, there were but |
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine OF
these were in ono month. Some idea OF
the transparency of the atmosphere may |
be had when state that, AT midday /
and with the unaided eye, | have seen /
Venus when it was hut ten degrees east
of the sum-"
DR., n. II. Matas, Physician OF z
wears practice in this City, says
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