Hoping  that  the  above  will  answer  your  purpose,  I  have  the  honor  to  be.
Very  respectfully,

E.  Bullock,
Acting  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.
Dr.  Francis  Crosson,

Albuquerque,  N.  Mex.
At  the  Government  sanitarium  at  Fort  Bayard  there  are  at  present  75  patients
from  the  Anny.  Dr.  Appel,  the  chief  physician,  says  that  the  results  of  the  cli-
matic cure  of  tnis  disease,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  this  institution,  are  little  short
of  marvelous.  A  dozen  cases  of  inciinent  consumption  have  been  completely  cured
since  the  sanitarium  was  establisheu,  nearly  a  year  ago,  and  in  the  Government
report  on  the  sanitarium,  which  will  be  made  in  a  few  months,  he  promises  some
statistics  that  will  startle  the  medical  world.  A  large  sanitarium  is  to  be  established
m  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  sanitarium  by  P^tcm  capitalists.  The  patients  at
Fort  Bayard  are  given  outdoor  employment,  and  are  kept  out  of  doors  the  greater
part  of  the  day  and  night.
CLIMATIC   CONDITIONS.
There  is  no  portion  of  the  Union  possessing  such  splendid  climatic
conditions  as  exist  in  this  Territory.  Here  we  have  a  dry,  arid  tem-
perature, with  no  extiemes  of  heat  or  cold,  with  clear,  bright  skies  and
an  almost  continuous  sunshine,  that  has  given  New  Mexico  the  well-
known  sobriquet  of  "the  Sunshine  State.  '

The  climate  is  peculiarly  adapted  to  the  cure  of  pulmonary  diseases.
A  celebrated  physician  who  has  given  much  study  to  the  subject,  and
who  recently  made  a  tour  of  Europe  and  America  in  the  interest  of
this  class  of  the  afflicted,  investigating  the  climatic  conditions  of  the


202  REPORT   OF   THE    GOVERNOR    OF    NEW   MEXICO.
