After 1943, when Albert Schatz, then a graduate student at Rutgers University, discovered streptomycin, an antibiotic and the first cure for tuberculosis, sanatoria began to close. As in the case of the Paimio Sanatorium, many were transformed into general hospitals.
This Flood Insurance Study (FIS) revises and updates information on the. existence and severity of flood hazards in the geographic area of Spokane County, including the Cities of Airway Heights, Cheney, Deer Park, Liberty Lake, Medical Lake, Millwood, Spangle, Spokane Valley, Spokane; the Towns of. Fairfield, Latah, Rockford, and Waverly; and the unincorporated areas of Spokane. County (referred to collectively herein as Spokane County), and aids in the. administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood.
Few Washington towns can claim a more idyllic setting than Chewelah, located some 45 miles north of Spokane in the southern Colville River valley in Stevens County. To the east, the dark bulk of Quartzite Mountain, part of the Selkirks, broods over the town. To the west, across the valley, rise the Huckleberry Mountains.