Dull day with hardly a blink of sun + very wet all afternoon + evening. Made one or two calls + went to morning service. Brought in all books +c as the church is about to be repainted. Was not out again till about 7 when I got a message to Mr Dodds, Backrow1 and had to see a second time Agnes Hoggan2 (formerly Mrs …) who looks suspiciously like enteric. She was ill in Spittal [?] for a week + came home on Thursday. Her temp. was 99.4 to 102.4. She is servant with Oldfield at Vicar’s Knowe.3
1 Robert Dodds, weaver, was Tenant/Occupier at 76 Back Row, Selkirk [1923 Valuation Rolls VR007900012-/418, Selkirk Burgh, page 418 of 644].
2 Agnes is not readily identifiable. She was not recorded as working for Oldfield in the 1921 Census (or, if she was working for them at that time, she must have been away).
3 Joseph Henry Oldfield, mill manager, Tenant/Occupier of a House and Garden Vicarsknowe, 1 The Glebe, Selkirk [1923 Valuation Roll VR007900012-/489, Selkirk Burgh, page 489 of 644]. He was recorded there in the 1921 Census with his wife Polly and daughter Constance Muriel Oldfield, aged 14.
[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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