ABSTRACT
Social and economic conditions altered rapidly and dramatically in Scotland during the nineteenth century. The Industrial Revolution came early to the country; the pace and rate of change was faster, cruder and more concentrated over a smaller area than in England. Inadequate provision was made for housing expanding populations in newly created industrial areas; gross overcrowding was the sickening by-product of successful industrial expansion in Victorian Scotland. Acute social problems were created during this period which still cast a blight on Scottish life in the latter half of the twentieth century.
