Felt quite fit but a little stiff. Found messages to several mills1 + a message to Ailie Boyd2 : also peremptory request for report on a case of chronic poisoning at Forest Mill which I had overlooked. Also request for information re Mrs Cook, Tait’s Hill3 from M.O. of Scott. R. N. Society.4 Saw only Geo. Smart’s little girl5 with suspicion of appendicitis. Mr Gallocher.6 Having by mistake sent my razor in the bag by post (which I won’t get till tomorrow) I went down to Wellwood7 + had a shave. Didn’t get to church. It was fair. Bella8 had got some most lovely roses in the garden.
1 Dr Muir had at times previously been recorded as the local medical practitioner with responsibility for factories so perhaps he was still involved in 1923.
2 Ailie Brack Boyd Wilson or Boyd-Wilson, later Milne (1890-1955).
3 Presumably Mrs Jane Cook née Waldie (about 1870-), widow of David Cook, ploughman. A charwoman (school caretaker in 1921 Census), she was Tenant of a house at Tait’s Hill, Selkirk [1922 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/276, Selkirk Burgh, page 276 of 644].
4 The Editor assumes that this must mean Scottish R. N. Society (in which case Royal and Nursing are the obvious other words) but can find no evidence of such a society.
5 Assume either Janet Cairns Smart (1912-) or Elizabeth Wood Smart (1915-), daughters of George Smart, woollen mill foreman, and Florence Ethel Robertson Smart née Lockie.
6 Gallocher is unidentified.
7 Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and their children Andrina Barbara Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), John Stewart ‘Jock’ Roberts (1904-1950), Louisa Jane Roberts, later Rutherford (1906-1982), Stewart Muir ‘Little Stewart’ Roberts (1908-2003) and George Edward ‘Tim’ Roberts (1911-2005).
8 Isabella ‘Bella’ Paulin (1873-?1952), the Muir family’s housekeeper ; born Ladykirk, the best match for Isabella’s death is Mar 1952, Paulin, Isabella, aged 82, Nthmbld N. 1b 338
[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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