Dull at first but a lovely day. Wind N.E. N.W. then N.E. Motored to Backrow, Market Place, Hospital, Muthag Street, Beechwood [and] Kilncroft. Gave Chlor[oform] at Home1 for 2 hours while Dav.2 did a short circuit3 on Effie Richardson.4 Johnstone Tailor5 settled my account. Attended meeting of Hospital Committee re transference to Galashiels.6 Got vouchers for railway tickets for B.M.A. meeting but unfortunately they are not valid till 18.7 Pair of stockings from Mrs Mack8 + tie case.
1 Viewfield nursing home.
2 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
3 The most obvious reading of this is that Dr Graham undertook a bowel operation.
4 Effie Robertson is as yet unidentified (though there was a Euphemia Robertson, aged 23, a tweed weaver with R Sim & Co., living with her family at 30 Muthag Street, Selkirk, recorded in the 1921 Census). See also Dr Muir’s diary entries for 29 and 30 June 1923.
5 Johnstone is so far unidentified.
6 It is not clear what this refers to.
7 Dr Muir had, it seems, acquired tickets from the British Medical Association for an upcoming meeting.
8 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk.
[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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