Thaw + slush once more though not quite as bad as yesterday. There were 10 new messages this morning. I had a town list of 53 of whom I saw 38 including 45 patients [sic]. I sent a boy Davidson1 into Hospital with Diph., a very bad case. Palfrey2 was here twice for catheterisation. A man Henderson3 came in at night having split his thumb with an axe. Helen4 came back from Edin. with Mrs Mack5 at 6.
1 John James Davidson, aged 9 John James Davidson died 27 Jan 1922 at Inf Dis Hosp usual res Scott’s Place, aet 9, son of Margaret Davidson woollen millworker of Diphtheria 8 days J S M [1922, 778/ 10, Selkirk]
2 Charles Alexander Palfrey (1852-1923), dye-works manager, sometime of Broomfield, Selkirk; the son of Thomas Palfrey and Isabella Harrower, born 18 June 1852, Alva, Clackmannanshire [birth: 470/30 157, Alva]
3 Henderson is unidentified
4 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper
5 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/25, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1922]
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