A dismal day of fog + continuous rain but quite calm. Very depressing. Had a confinement Mrs Dodds (Crissie Hope), Hill Street.1 Was called out before breakfast + went back + found that the child came in my absence.2 She required a couple of stitches. Called for Boylan3 Was not out after lunch till night when I saw Waters the butcher4 a second time. Got a letter from Kate MacDonald saying she would be glad to put me up.5
1 Christina Dodds née Mathieson, wife of John Peacock Dodds, butcher, married 26 June 1919.
2 Euphemia McBeth Dodds, born 13 September 1923 at 14 Hill Street, Selkirk.
3 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.
4 John Alexander Waters (1879-1991), butcher, at 42a High Street and with a slaughterhouse at Ladylands, Selkirk. Born Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, he was married to Agnes Watson Robertson (1882-1971) and had a son Henry Robertson ‘Harry’ Waters (1905-), an apprentice engineer working for Geo. Burns & Sons of Galashiels 1921 Census].
5 Catherine Isabella ‘Kate’ Macdonald [or McDonald] née Paton (about 1862-1932), widow of James Cumming Raff Macdonald [or McDonald] (1859-1921), writer, of Symons & Macdonald, 84 Irish Street, Dumfries. Dr Muir had stayed with the couple when he cycled to Dumfries on 18 September 1918.
[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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