Duller today + not so hot : some heavy rain after 3. Feeling rather less dyspepsia but seedy. Took the 8.34 to Portsmouth + came back by the 1.36 for tea. The most interesting thing at this meeting was the announcement of the new headquarter of the Association in London.1 Rob. Wallace2 went up to London by train + came back on a motor cycle. I rested all afternoon + enjoyed my dinner. Got the Weekly Scotsman. Although my dyspepsia was improving I developed a tickling laryngeal cough + was very hoarse.
1 The British Medical Association moved from The Strand to B.M.A. House, Tavistock Square, London WC1 in 1925. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is at the heart of Bloomsbury and close to University College and the British Museum (and not far from the Editor’s birthplace). Proposals for a new premises were announced by Sir Robert Alfred Bolam (1871-1939), O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., medical practitioner, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Chair of Council of the British Medical Association, 1920-1927 [“Ninety-First Annual Meeting Of The British Medical Association. Portsmouth, 1923. Annual Representative Meeting.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3265, 1923, pp. 63–64. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20424184. Accessed 23 July 2023.]
2 The implication that Wallace is a medic (Dr Muir’s diary entry for 25 July 1923) points to his being Robert William Lessel (or Leslie) Wallace (1881-1930), M.C., M.B., Ch.B., M.D., medical practitioner, born Turriff, Aberdeenshire, studied George Watson’s College and Edinburgh University, in medical practice at Woking, Surrey in 1923 [sources include: UK Medical Register, 1923].
[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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