Variable day. A little rain in afternoon. Saw 3 cases before Church. Went to morning service in Victoria Hall.1 Birkett2 conducted the service. Scarcely heard a word he said. Was called down to see Tommy Murray, Mill Street3 who fell down stairs last night when drunk + broke a rib. Robert Currie, Rockville buried today.4 I did not go but had the fluids drawn + [illegible] + sent my card + condolences.
1 At a meeting of the Session it had been decided to worship at the Victoria Hall for the five to seven weeks it was going to take for the church to be painted, see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 19 August 1923.
2 The Reverend Robert Birkett (1846-1937), Free Church Minister at Ettrick had undertaken a swap with the Reverend Andrew Ross at Selkirk, see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 8 September 1923.
3 Thomas ‘Tommy’ Murray (1856-1934), retired general porter, widowed, lived at 35 Mill Street, Selkirk.
4 Robert Currie junior (about 1847-1923), woollen hosiery manufacturer, had died on 6 September 1923, death certified by D Charteris Graham M.B., Ch.B., Dr Muir’s medical partner.
[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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