Dullish day with blinks of sun. [Wind] W.N.W. : strongish : dry : was knocked up at 12.30 a.m. for Mrs Cleghorn.1 Stayed there + got some sleep in a bed. Very stiff forceps case at 10.30.2 Came up for breakfast. I bought Mrs Cleghorn (Lizzie Wallace) into the world at Bridge Street August 22 1895.3 Motored to Clifton Road, Bridgelands (Mrs Todd4 + Miss Scott5), Hospital, Green Terrace + Braidgarhill. Found kid6 no better. Gave Chlor[oform] + found abdominal swelling: possibly … bladder but more like a tumour. Failed to catheterise. Sent it to the Sick Kids.7 Came back by Ettrickhaugh Road + Muthag Street.
1 Dr Muir had attended Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Cleghorn née Wallace the day before, see diary entry for 20 June 1923.
2 Alexander Cleghorn, born 21 June 1923 at 48 Muthag Street, Selkirk, the son of Tom Cleghorn, dyehouse labourer, and Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Cleghorn née Wallace, married 28 July 1922 at Heatherlie Manse, Selkirk, at which time Cleghorn was described as a restaurateur.
3 Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Cleghorn née Wallace (1895-1234), born 22 August 1895 at Bridge Street, Philiphaugh, Selkirk, the daughter of Matthew Wallace, yarn dyer, and Elizabeth Wallace née Linton.
4 Mrs Todd is as yet unidentified.
5 Miss Scott is as yet unidentified.
6 Ian George Francis Graham (1923-), son of Edith Graham née Scott and Thomas Newton Graham, political secretary, married 8 June 1916 at Selkirk (see diary entry for 20 June 1923).
7 The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Sciennes Road, Edinburgh, familiarly known as Sick Kinds, and now the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People at Little France, Edinburgh.
[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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