Went down in the car to Sunderland Hall + helped Dav.1 who was doing tonsils + adenoids on Charlie + Sophia.2 Came back to Mill Street +c + then had to go up to Beechwood3 to see the nurse with a stye! + I then went to Shawpark.4 Mrs Ballantyne, Eastfield walked in in the evening with her son Robert + I made Bella5 give them tea for which the decent lady wanted to pay 2/- !6
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Charles Andrew Scott Plummer (1912-1959) and Sophia Scott Plummer (1916-1990), children of Charles Henry Scott Plummer and Muriel Grace Scott Plummer née Johnstone-Douglas of Sunderland Hall, Selkirk.
3 Beechwood, Linglie Road, Selkirk. Dr Muir is not specific which of the two Beechwood properties he is referring to but Jemima Colville (1857-1932) was recorded in the 1921 Census at Beechwood Villa, Selkirk, with a nurse Elsie Morrison Simpson living in.
4 Dr Muir is evidently getting fed up (see diary entry for 10 August 1923) attending Shawpark, Selkirk to see John Dun Boylan (1850-1924), a civil engineer, who had a heart attack on 11 March 1923.
5 Isabella ‘Bella’ Paulin (1873-?1952), the Muir family housekeeper, daughter of James Paulin, groom, and Grace Paulin née Cranston, born Ladykirk, Berwickshire [Sources include: ‘A Souter’s Bairn, recollections of life in Selkirk’ by Jenny Corbett with Avril Jack, published Selkirk Common Good Fund, 1993].
6 Violet Ballantyne née Wilson, wife of Arthur Ballantyne, and her younger son Robert Ballantyne (1905-), born Ashkirk. The family lived at Eastfield, Bowden, just south of the Selkirk – St Boswells road [1921 Census]. The Editor assumes that they presented themselves at evening consultation in some sort of difficulty.
[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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