A cloudy mild calm day with a lot of rain particularly in the evening when it became very dark. I made 23 visits including Whitmuirhall (where the cook of the Cowans1 who have taken it) sprained her foot + Whitmuirhall2 where all the girls have had Scarlatina or something. Motored there. Visited the Home which is pretty full. Wrote Helen.3 Jack4 called when I was at lunch.
1 The cook is unidentified but the new tenant at Whitmuirhall was Alexander Gillespie Cowan [1923 Valuation Roll VR011700009-/437, Selkirk County, Page 437 of 605].
2 This seems to be a moment of confusion on Dr Muir’s part. The family described cannot be readily identified.
3 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and housekeeper.
4 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Dr Muir’s son-in-law.
[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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