Fine day : calm sunny warm but there was some quiet rain after 6. I didn’t get to Church. Cycled to Broomhill1, Shawpark2 +c + down to Heatherlie Park3 where I put up the boy Smith’s Potts Fracture4 under Chloro[orm]. Nurse McIntosh5 Viewfield developed measles + I tried to get Dav.6 on the ‘Phone but up till 7 he hadn’t replied. Went to Wellwood7 for supper.
1 Broomhill, Selkirk, home of Walter Smith (about 1861-), farmer. In the 1921 household his family comprised Agnes Hume Smith nee Turnbull, married 14 May 1889 in Edinburgh, and their children Andrew Selkirk (1890-), Archibald Turnbull Smith (1894-), Jeanie Turnbull Smith (1896-), Maggie Phorson Smith (1897-), Walter Smith (1899-) and Lizzie Turnbull Smith (1904-). Andrew Smith was born at the Queen’s Head Inn, Selkirk while his father was working as an innkeeper.
2 Dr Muir had been attending Shawpark, Selkirk from time to time to see John Dun Boylan (1850-1924), a civil engineer, who had a heart attack on 11 March 1923.
3 There is a James Smith, barber, at Heatherlie Park, Selkirk in the 1923 Valuation Roll but the Editor cannot match him to anyone in the 1921 Census.
4 A Pott’s fracture is a type of ankle fracture.
5 Nurse McIntosh is so far unidentified. Nobody of that surname and occupation was recorded at Selkirk in the 1921 Census.
6 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner, appears to have gone off on some sort of military duties, see diary entry for 29 July 1923.
7 Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of Dr Muir’s daughter Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter, and her husband John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner, and their children.
[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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