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CHILDREN WITH INTRACTABLE ASTHMA?╟÷STEEN More children are able to participate in group activities at the School than at home as indicated by the figures for the various types of recreation. table iii. activities figures (group recreation) Activities At Sahuaro School 1958 At Home Plaving games Roller skating Dancing Swimming Baseball 51 44 46 50 33 29 29 26 28 29 CONCLUSIONS We feel that the program at the Sahuaro School of the National Foundation for Asthmatic Children, based on climate, individualized medical care, change of environment, educational program, and recreational facilities at the School, has resulted in a very workable plan for the rehabilitation of the asthmatic child. references 1. Stevenson, I. P.: The therapeutic effect of the climate of Arizona. Arch. Phys. Med., 28:644, 1947. 2. Mills, C. A.: Climate and disease. J.A.M.A., 123:551, 1943. 3. Baldwin, L. B.: Solar Radiation and Climatotherapy of Tuberculosis and Chronic Pulmonary Disease in the Sunny Southwestern Desert. Mayer, E.: Radiation and Climatic Therapy of Chronic Pulmonary Diseases. Williams & Wilkins, Chapt. 15, 1944. 4. >Xook, R. A.: Allergy in Theory and Practice. W. B. Saunders Co., p. 155, 1947. 5. Tuft, Louis: Clinical Allergy. Lea & Febiger, p. 310, 1949. 6. Unger, L.: Bronchial Asthma. Charles C Thomas, p. 474, 1945. 7. Metzger, F. C.: The climatic treatment of hay fever and asthma. J.A.M.A., 112:29, 1939. 8. Smith, H. V.: The climate of Arizona. Agr. Exp. Station, U. of Arizona, Tucson, July, 1945. 9. Peshkin, M. M.: Asthma in children. IX. Role of environment in the treatment of a selected group of cases: A plea for a "home" as a restorative measure. Am. J. Dis. Child, 39:774-781 (April) 1930. 10. Peshkin, M. M., and Abramson, H. A.: First National Seminar of Regional Medical Consultants. Ann. Allergy, 16:473-509 (Sept.-Oct.) 1958. 11. Tuft, H. S.: The development and management of intractable asthma of child hood. A.M.A. J. Dis. Child., (Feb.) 1957. 12. Gottlieb, P. M.: Bronchial asthma. Ann. Allergy, 13:459-460 (July-Aug.) 1955. 13. Marks, M. B.: Climate as an influencing factor in childhood allergy. Ann. Allergy, 12:403-408 (July-Aug.) 1954. 14. Editorial: Institutions for the care of asthma. J. Allergy, 25 :379 (July) 1954. 15. Klotz, S. D., and Bernstein, C.: Environmental climatologic therapy in bronchial asthma. Ann. Allergy, 14:502-505 (Nov.-Dec.) 1956. 16. Editorial: Migration for relief from allergies. J.A.M.A, 154:412, 1954. 17. Sherman, W. B., and Kessler, W. R.: Allergy in Pediatric Practice. C. V. Mosby, p. 184, 1957. 116 North Tucson Blvd., Tucson Submitted April 14, 1959 Printed in USA Volume 17, November-December, 1959 871