Quiet thaw: no wind + mild. Got to bed at 11 + was knocked up at 2 for Mrs Douglas who had a son (Chlor. + forceps) at 31. Lay in bed till almost 9 + did not shave. Did a town list of 45 + 2 at Buxton2. Motored most of it. Felt my knee a little stiff from the fall I got yesterday. Matro Stanley3 was found by Nurse Love [?]4 in Matron’s5 room at Viewfield + David6 at once sacked Stanley + Matron will have to go.
1 George Huntley Douglas, born 28 January 1922, at Viewfield Nursing Home, Selkirk, son of William Millar Douglas, shoemaker of 55 Tower Street, Selkirk, and Annie Douglas née Davidson; the parents had married 29 April 1921 at Selkirk [statutory Births, 1922, 778/ 14, Selkirk].
2 Buxton almost certainly refers to the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Buxton, just under the Selkirk Hills.
3 Stanley is unidentified.
4 Nurse Love was Martha Durlay Landels Love (1887-1976), born 1887 at Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall, and recorded at Viewfield nursing home in the 1921 Census.
5 Matron is Nurse, more correctly Matron Waugh was Marion Gentleman Waugh (1877-), born Craigbank, Slamannan, Stirlingshire, the daughter of Allan Waugh, seed merchant, and Christina – sometimes Christian – Turnbull Waugh née Dodds, married 1872 at Muiravonside. Matron Waugh and her mother were recorded at Viewfield Nursing Home, Selkirk in the 1921 Census.
In spite of Dr Muir’s assertion Matron Waugh did not leave, at least not immediately, because she was recorded again in Dr Muir’s diary entries of 13 and 15 November 1922.
6 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
[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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