Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-28

Ia place for cure. The explanation
 is not found in the climate, of course. | Ie will probably astonish a great
 many to learn that tne fate of nine
 tenths of the patients who come to
 the southwest on the sordid question
 of money-harf. cold cash. Even
 Arizona air will not do everything. The patient must have nutritious
 food, and must not engage in -nanu-
 al or exhaustive labor. This means
 money-and plenty of 1t, in Arizona.
 The cost of living down here sur
 prises the stranger from the east and
 northwest, and if he comes for his
 health, having planned his expenses
 on the basis of cost in Minnesota, the
 mistake may cost him dear.
 | The climate for Arizona is ideal
 for consumptives, if they can take
 advantage of it in the proper way
 But 1t should always be remembered
 that, item for item. it costs fully | three times as much to live here as | it does in Minnesota. Arizona raises
 nothing to eat, except here and there | on irrigated tracts that are too small
 and few to cut much figure. Conse- iquently all articles of food have to
 be brought hundreds and in many cases, thousands, of miles, with freight charges piled on remorslessly,
 and then a generous profit for those
 who are here solely to make money
 and get back east" as soon as pos sible
 Patient and doctor should under stand this, for the desolate aspect is often discouraging to the sufferer from the start But the air and the climate-let no one doubt that they are all right. From the ground up to the heavens the blessing of God
 is given with a lavish hand. The sufferer from lung trouble wno comes here does not. however, al-
 ways enjoy the blessings as he should in order to get well. If he is a poor man depending upon ordinary labor. he OvertaNes his strength and at the same time does not obtain the food so necessary to withstand the ray- ages of the disease. There is no nope for his recovery in Arizona, and he might as well take his chances where he is. It may be that a sufferer in Minnesota has means enough to en- able him to live properly al home who could not meet expenses of oTdi- nary living down here. All such stay where they are
 Doctors who are called on for ad- vice should bring up this question of finances frankly and fully. The sin gle young man should, to be specific, not expect to get along on less than S25 a week; and the man of fam- ily should figure on Tot less than $40 a week for five persons in economi- cal Housekeeping, there being allow ance in each case for proper food for the patient This cash allowance should be entirely independent of any necessity for the classes of labor that are almost enough to kill well man. let alone a consumptiYe. Enough, means to last two years should be provided beforehand, although curesii have been effected in a year under favorable circumstances wherein 1 wealthy men have come to Arizona | for lung trouble and filled themselves with liquor are numerous. Consump- ton is no joke. Its cure calls for per sOnal discipline and expenses. Take | care of these, and the air Of Arizona will do the rest.
 Some readers might think I have ! omitted the charitable side Of treat l nent in this territory But there Is nothing along that line to omit. There are no public hospitals or char table organizations. As a rule, it may be said that everybody in Ari- zona is either here for his health or | to make money, and perhaps it costs ] SO much to eat that there is nothi. g Jeff for charity.