A dull dry day with slight N. wind + not very cold. I had a pretty busy day from 9.30 till 7.15. Cycled to Hospital +c. Met nurse Beck1 at Mrs Fowler2 at 10 + dressed wound. Went round by Rockville, Backrow, Kirkwynd, [illegible] Place, +c + Forest Road. Saw Mrs Dunn3 at 12.30. Had lunch + cycled to Midlem, Lilliesleaf + W Riddell West Lodge. Message to see Sinclair Ross’ little girl.4 Put long splint on May [?] Ann Fairgrieve.5 Had a call from John S Muir Johnston who will be 57 on July 17th. He was looking well + had his second wife with him.6 I didn’t know him.
1 Elizabeth Fyfe Beck (1865-1954), nurse, born Dumfriesshire, died Ceres, Fife. The Southern Reporter, 10 August 1916, describes her as a District Nurse at Selkirk before she was released to take up military nursing.
2 Mrs Fowler is so far unidentified.
3 Assume this refers to Agnes Ralph Dunn née Waldie (1858-1926), of 1 Marion Crescent, Selkirk.
4 Alison Spottiswoode Ross (1916-), daughter of Sinclair Ross, Caithness born solicitor, and Alison Ross née Spottiswoode, married 1905 at Melrose.
5 Mary or possibly May Ann Fairgrieve is so far unidentified. She was injured at Gala Rig during the Selkirk Common Riding, see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 15 June 1923.
6 John Stewart Muir Johnston (1867-1938), the first baby Dr Muir delivered at Selkirk; he lived in Hawick and had written to Dr Muir on 17 July 1917, the occasion of his Jubilee. The Editor can only find a reference to one wife and J S M Johnston was referred to as a bachelor at his 1895 marriage to Agnes Higgins.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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