However , the problem of existing cemeteries and the shortage of land in the city remained .
A fifteen - block section of Chinatown was quarantined while city leaders squabbled over the proper course to take , but the outbreak was finally eradicated by 1905 .
The problem of existing cemeteries and the shortage of land in the city remained .
A fifteen - block section of Chinatown was quarantined while city leaders squabbled over the proper course to take , but the outbreak was finally eradicated by 1905 .