Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-03-26 | Page 7 | Change of Climate not Sure Cure for Consumption

CHANGE OF CLIMATE NOT SURE CURE FOR CONSUMPTION Chicago, March 26. That Chicago air Is as beneficial to tho consumptive consump-tive as that of Arizona or California, is the belief of Dr. J. W. Pettlt, physician phy-sician In charge of the Ottawa Tent colony for tubercular patients and he has so Informed tho Chicago Medical Boclety. He says it Is almost criminal crim-inal to send consumptives to western climates, where usually they are far worse off than tbey would be at home with relatives. Dr. Pettlt returned recently from a tour of inspection of sanitariums in Arizona, New Mexico and California. He says physicians have known lor several 3'ears that climate alone would not cure consumption; that sufflclent ' nourishment and pleasant surroundings surround-ings are of more benefit, but the general gen-eral public, he declares, apparently has not yet learned It.