Average hourly velecity of wind (in miles) per hour for each month of the year

Total precipitation (in inches) during 1900 in various typical localities, as compared with six widely separated points in New Mexico.

Number of days in 1900 upon which there was appreciable precipitation at the

MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY.

Percentage of mean relative humidity during 1900 at the stations selected.

Cities.

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The question will naturally arise in the mind of the inquiring reader, What particular location in New Mexico is the most desirable? The answer to this question depends somewhat upon the physical condition of the inquirer, his business or industrial training, the amount of available capital he has to invest in the pursuit of health, pleasure, or profit, whether he wishes to engage in mining, stock growing, farming, or fruit culture, together with a good many other circumstances of a kindred nature. If he is an invalid, his physician should be consulted. He is offered a range of five degrees of latitude and any elevation he may desire down to about 3,000 feet. If he is merely seeking this climate as a preventive, any place will do, and he should go where the opportunities to better his condition in life are best suited to his training and inclinations. Every part will benefit his health. If, however, he desires local or special treatment in the way of baths or mineral waters, a wide range of selection is open to him, as will be perceived from reading the pages of this report devoted to the wonderful thermal springs of New Mexico.

UNITED STATES SANATORIUMS IN NEW MEXICO.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AT FORT BAYARD, N. MEX., AND THE UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL SANATORIUM AT FORT STANTON, N. MEX. There is great interest being shown in the establishment of sanatoriums at different points in New Mexico. There is scarcely a city or town of any considerable size but that already has its sanatorium or is planning to build one. This is due to the growing knowledge that New Mexico climate is superior to that of any other part of the world for the cure and prevention of consumption, and the realization by physicians that this disease can best be treated in isolated sanatoriums where the chances for infection are reduced to a minimum. There are at present 445,000 consumptives in the United States who are looking for a remedy that will give them new hope of prolonging their life and there are as many more young persons threatened with the dread disease who could escape it by coming to New Mexico. There is certainly a need and demand for sanatoriums in New Mexico for the benefit of that vast army of citizens in other sections of the

nation now suffering from this dread disease, and the work of supplying such institutions is to be counted among the highest, most noble, and humane that philanthropist or conscientious scientist ever entered upon. The Government, through its successful management of the sanatoriums at Fort Stanton, is doing much toward this end, and there is no reason why a well-advertised and well-managed sanatorium in almost any part of New Mexico would not prove a good financial investment and a boon to humanity.

GENERAL HOSPITAL AT FORT BAYARD.

UNITED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL,
Fort Bayard, N. Mex., July 29, 1901.

SIR: In compliance with your request, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of my report for the period ending December 31, 1901.

Very respectfully,

D. M. APPEL, Major and Surgeon, United States Army, Commanding Hospital.

Hon. M. A. OTERO,

Santa Fe, N. Mex.

To the Surgeon-General, United States Army, Washington, D. C.: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report from October 3, 1899, on which date I arrived at Fort Bayard and established this hospital:

In accordance with your instructions I first selected three company barracks and seven sets of officers' quarters for the use of the hospital, in addition to the old post hospital and hospital steward's quarters, but soon found that more

buildings would be required, and on my recommendation an order was issued directing that Fort Bayard be discontinued as a garrisoned post, and that all the buildings pertaining thereto be transferred to the Surgeon-General.

As the abandonment of the post had been contemplated for some years, the buildings were very dilapidated, and the water and sewer systems in a deplorable condition. Repairs were at once begun, and although they have progressed considerably are still incomplete. The main system of sewerage has been entirely reconstructed, and is now in excellent condition, and in a short time all the lavatories, bathrooms, and water-closets will be completed according to the most improved sanitary requirements. The water supply has been increased by con

*Reprinted from American Medicine, with kind permission to reproduce illustrations.

nection with another well, and is now ample for all purposes. A new corrugated iron pump house has been erected. In this have been installed a new and larger boiler, pump, sawmill, and lathe, in addition to the old pump and boiler.

The ice plant has been repaired and renovated and now requires a new shelter, for which estimates are being prepared. Building No. 9, formerly a double set of officers' quarters, has been repaired

throughout and altered for use as an officers' hospital. It contains six bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen, reading room, sitting room, billiard room, and two bathrooms. Building No. 17, formerly band quarters, is used for the mess of ambulant

Barrack buildings and frame cottage on the rise to the north.

patients and contains a large dining room, a pantry, kitchen, cook's room, and storeroom. Building No. 16 furnishes two large recreation rooms, in which patients congregate after supper and during inclement weather. The old post hospital is