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During the period 1880 to 1939, more and more Scots lived in cities. By 1900, more than one fifth of the population lived in Glasgow, and by 1940 this had risen to one quarter. People lived in overcrowded conditions in all Scottish cities. Some lived three to a room, many in single ends or two room tenement flats. Toilets were usually outside and living conditions were often dirty and sometimes infested with vermin. The introduction of public laundries, or steamies, was of some help, but by the 1930s many of the ageing tenements had begun to decay.