Dry pleasant day not so warm as Monday but warmer than yesterday. Mrs Thomas Cleghorn1, Muthag Street began labour. Saw her thrice. Gave Mrs Graham (Edith Scott) gas + opened her breast.2 Her kid is a shade better. Cycled to Hospital + Ravensheugh en route for Brockhill3 but got a message to Braidgairhill4 + came back for car + went up there calling at Brockhill + Craighill.5 Got back at 7.
1 Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Cleghorn née Wallace, wife of Tom Cleghorn, married 1922 at Selkirk.
2 Ian George Francis Graham (1923-), born 27 May 1923 at Viewfield Nursing Home, Selkirk, the son of Edith Graham née Scott and Thomas Newton Graham, political secretary, married 8 June 1916 at Selkirk.
3 Brockhill, Kirkhope, grid reference NGR NT396,248.
4 Braidgairhill, Ettrick, NT207,108.
5 Craighill, Ettrick, NT259,145.
[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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