Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-18
CONSERVATIVES
 COME 1OOLATE
 0RGO TOOSOON
Terrible but Common Mistake Made by Victims of White Plague Who Seek Health in the Southwest
(Swansea Times)

] White Plague and the thousands of stricken pilgrims who annually flock to the deserts, mountains and mesas 1 of our wonderful territory, in the
 confident belief that nothing is needed for their cure but the heal ing air of Arizona. They seem unable to understand that our life giving climate is only one of several elements that enter into health
 within our borders and that climate alone never healed a single con sumptive.
 | Pure air, of the dry and bracing quality for which Arizona is noted, and plenty of it is absolutely nee essary for the cure of tubercular complaints. But there must be other aids; among them an abundance Of the most nourishing food. careful nursing patient and long continued effort and an entire freedom from worry or care, financial or other i wise. When tuberculosis patients are able to live in Arizona under these favorable conditions their chances for recovery are bright in deed. But what about the hundreds who are unable to provide even the common necessities of life whose food is of the cheapest and least nu- ] tritious kind. and to whom the prob lem of bare existence is a matter or ceaseless worry and apprehension. What chances have these poor exiles 1 from home and friends to regain l health, or to even hold their uncer. i tain own against the rayages of the most pitiless of all diseases?
 The custom which obtains so
 largely through the country of
 raising purse to send some poor
 consumptive to Arizona without
 funds or friends, and with the hope
 of being self-sustaining, in the ex. i pectation that the climate" alone VII effect a certain and speedy cure, is little less than a crime and one against which stern measures should
 be taken. The sight of scores Of
 poor and friendless 'lungers" drag i ging out a painful and hopeless ex-
 istence among strangers is such a
 common one in almost every city
 of the territory fhat through famil- iarity, it has ceased to be impress
 i've. And yet it is the most pitiful ! spectacle that the average citizen
 of Arizona is called upon to en- counter.
 One the other hand, many weli-to do victims of the dread disease, who are able to command every aid in
 the way of medical attention skill ful nursing and proper diet, and who
 are entirely free from financial or other material cares, counteracr the enormous benefit they have received from our superb climate by assum. i ing they are cured" when the first real improvement is manifested. and
 returning to the regions where the ailment was contracted. Hundreds of valuable lives are snuffed out un.
 necessarily through this cause, as every citizen of the territory who
 has carefully investigated the sub
 ject will testify.
 | Here are just a few typical cases ! iAtoII dtihs lhlo pOluLs nave
 come under observation of the
 writer: A college professor. seri
 ously afflicted with tuberculosis,
 came to Arizona in search of health.
 He was in a position to provide him self with the essential aids to re- covery that have been mentioned. After a period of uncertainty he be-
 gan to improve; and then, on the
 earnest advice of friends. and much
 against his own inclinations he re-
 sisted the desire to return to his ! former home until ample time should have passed to effect a complete re-
 covery. This man was permanent ona's most rugged citizens, picture of health and vitality.
 A prosperous young Kansas busi- ness man was attcked by the dis ease in one of it's worst forms, and
 neither effort nor money was spared in his behalf After trying the eli mate of New Mexico he came to Wickenburg. accompanied by his
 charming wife and infant chtld, rented a house, and entered upon careful and earnest campaign for health. Within a few weeks he be gan to mend, and three months after his arrival he was on the high road to recovery. Full of ella ton over his speedy improvement and confident that he had the bet ter of the disease. he decided to re- turn home without further delay. This decision was urgently combat !, ted by his physician his newly formed Arizona friends, and even by | his wife. But the young man was homesick; he knew that he was all right, and that his full recovery would be hastened by the return. He went back and, deprived of the benefit of the Arizona climate at the critical period of his convales- cense he rapidly failed, and, with in few months, died. Had he re- mained in Arizona there is no reas- onable doubt that his recovery would have been complete These gre simply two ordinary cases. the hist ory of which is repeated over and over in the experience cf every Arizona raysic'ar.
 Another class of cases which is
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