Back to frost + a biting East wind. Roads like glass + walking most risky. Put on my spikes + tramped round the town all day. 12 or 13 new messages. Made 41 calls involving a good many more [?] patients.

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/25, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1922]