Splendid day with brilliant sunshine + drying N.W. wind. Saw 14 cases by 14.45 + then had a consultation with Pollok1 about the inclusion of workshops +c in my annual report.2 After lunch cycled to Hospital, Fairnilee, Sunderland, B’Meadows + Bowhill. Attended meeting of Public Health Committee in Pretty’s office3 at 7.30 about the Provost’s motion to have drains inspected + then went down to Hospital again to see John Scott who is very ill.4 His brother Walt. was admitted also.5
1 John Pollok (1858-1938), solicitor, Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal.
2 Dr Muir was the Factory Inspector for Selkirk.
3 John Pritty (about 1857-1920), Burgh Surveyor for Selkirk.
4 John Grierson Scott (1885-), son of Francis Napier Scott, house painter, of High Street, Selkirk, and Catherine Scott née Grierson. His mother had died in childbirth and Francis had married again, in 1886, Marion Bruce ‘Minnie’ Lumsden. The family had been attended in connection with an outbreak of Scarlet Fever only the day before.
5 Walter Lumsden Scott (1889-), John’s brother, son of Francis Napier Scott, house painter, and Marion Bruce ‘Minnie’ Lumsden, married 1886.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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