Steerage is the lower deck of a ship. <span>With low privacy and security, bad food and sanitary conditions, steerage was inhumane and many passengers died during travel.
</span>Worse case of steerage passenger abuse was in 1912, when in the eight weeks of voyage, there was 58 deaths, among them was 57 children.
Living in the city is dangerous because there are dangerous people in the city, and it is very poluted, but in the country, it is more remote and less poluted then the city, hope this helps