The Tucson citizen., 1902-01-13

/ many (as the writer sleep out during
the whole year. There are not five davs
III the whole year but the most delicate
/ invalid can spend part OF the day, at
/ least, out OF doors. In this climate in
Iurics 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
TINS 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
/ 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
ia the altitude suited to their particular
case that did not get well; nor have l
/ known of one in the secoud 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. ". Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
! of the Southern Pacific K. r., saws
/ Tucson is a city of 10 900 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2, 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 Sc respectively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation Is car
ried on. The water supply - excellent.
The summers are long. the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree ofhumid-
ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
and the most hcalthful part of the year.
Sunstrokes e~6 h~~t proetratious are
unknown The climate oi Tucson has
heen toand ty experience 10 bt partacul-
ar!s hcnefc3&l to most cases ot pulmoJ1~
atv phthisis especially those OF the
earlier aE prc-T ubcrculaT periods.
, Dr Mark \. Rogers. cf Tucson. says.
N experience Las 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 ofscv-
eral months, or, for that matter, for q
year, or several years, q 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 rare'v send their patents
to the arid -eg.o1s suri1g :1sn:1er md
this ! consider a great =istake. The
patients should be sent to the arid re-
gions 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 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 Ut
the Atlantic coast, and 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 e1nanations 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 is high
degree of relative humidity. andpatients
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 a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere n \
North America. know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative hu1niG-
ity are combined with the same iakItNgle
and altitude. 1t is no longer Considered
imperative to send tubercular m kinko
to an altitude of 1000 feet, or OVER IN
fact clinical experience has proyen thn1
more frequently patients required ri II
sent to an altitude or less, rather fzk4n
more than 5000 feet. The aititu{ M
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seexnn to
be amply high for all but thu 1nul1 & .
ceptional cases. The city Is eitua61 II
a basin near the undergr0und -
Cruz river. 1t is completelY n
bv massive mountain ranRe R fIs
north is the Santa Catalin4 a n kxS
the east, the Rincon; to the II = G NJ
Santa Rita; and ON the we6 4 -
son. Each of these ranges I'm e M
tude of 5000 feet at least.
mon. the highest peak Of tl Il
has an elevation of 10,
Mount Wrightson IN tl Nh
reaches an altitude Of IN
feet. 7ass
"The scenery at Tucao n W. ~ al
i sivc as anywhere III n "
htains, and the gorgeuN II
set beggar descripti i
Z TWENTY-FIVE cloudy
these were IN one mo-
the Transparency ~
be had when 4t1
Il and with The S15 g.
!. Venus when Il gn1 +
of the sun.