Arizona republican., 1909-06-14
THE DESERT CURE
 FOR HUMAN AILMENTS
Extracts From an Article by Harry Brook of the Los Angeles Times Staff.

1 The following extracts are from an article on The Desert Cure by | Harry Brook in the Los Angeles i Times magazine.
 It is sorrowful to note the condi- ! ton of many invalids who seek the l pleasant climate of Southern Cali i fornia, or other parts of the south 1 west Especially is this the case | when, as often happens, they are
 in an advanced stage of consump
 tion, and their financial resources
 are as low as their health.
 It is not only cruel, but useless,
 to send these people far from their | homes and friends in the hope that
 any particular climate will prove
 specific so long as they continue 1 to live wrong-to breathe bad air, and to eat wrong-fOr you may breathe bad air in Los Angeles, and | you may breathe good air in Chi c&go The main thing is to get fresh
 air night and day, wherever you are and then to eat right.
 The best medical experts of the | United States and Europe announce as a result of a long series of eX-
 pcriments and investigations. that fully one-half of the deaths from 1 consumption in this and other coun- ! tries occur among the people who are compelled to breathe dust in its various forms. This result is an nounced in a bulletin of the bureau
 of labor at Washington, which deals
 particularly with the effects of dust
 on factory workmen, but adds the
 .-;.w
 of disease is no greater than that found in the dust of the streets.
 Those who come to the southwest in search of heath should shun the city as they would shun a pestilence. To sit and nope and shiver in d dreary back room of a lodging house is death and despair. To get out into Gods fresh air and sleep under d tree or a rock is hope and renewed ] life Lying out of doors in this great | southwestern country is an immense | sanatorium. established millions of 1 years ago by Nature. It covers hun l dreds of thousands of square miles, | and most of it may be squatted upon | by any one who pleases to do so.
 Then follows a comparison of thc ] vast American deserts and mounta n regions of America. with those of l the old world where the air has been breathed and burned and battle . smoked for 10000 years" Continu- ing the writer says:
 Some parts of the desert are being made to blossom as the rose" turist, not for the health seeker. turist, not for the health eseker Let him avoid them. With irrigating ditches comes moisture in the air, and more or less decaying vegetation.
 It is the extreme dryness of this desert air that makes it so beneficial. so medicinal. The atmosphere is antiseptic Where you see the car cass Of an OK dry up until it blows away you may know that it is a good place for you. who have rotten material in your lungs.
 Phoenix, in Arizona. is one of the . places that has been most overrun by impecunious consumptives from the east. Many of these unfortunate people come with the expectation Of getting light employment. Finding this out of the question, they be- come burden on the community. There is now a plan on foot to es- tablish. on a mesa near PhOeniN, a big city Of tent houses. for consump- tives, with irrigated land near by. where they may raise part of what they consume. This is good idea and might be duplicated in many sections of the southwest. Such communities should, however, not be made too large The close