steerage



//Steerag//e is a large open area beneath a ship's deck, that is often used to house traveling immigrants. These are mostly full of lower class and poor citizens.These living areas are also normally crowded, unsanitary, and prone to disease, and for many because of the uncleanliness of there housing on the ships they are sent to quarantines once they reach there destination because of illnesses and diseases they got from there stay in the disgusting living areas.

info from: US History textbook picture from:http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/Cunard/steerage.jpg