Original: Sunderland was put under quarantine, and the port was blockaded, but in December of that year the disease spread to Gateshead and from there, it rapidly made its way across the country, killing an estimated 32,000 people.
Simplified: But in December of that year cholera was in Gateshead and it spread across the country killing about 32,000 people Jack Crawford was one of the first to die in the epidemic.