No rain yesterday or today but cold N.W. wind : some sunshine. Message to Miss Colville, Beechwood.1 Cycled to Hospital, Lower Faldonside (Roy Dees2 at David’s request3), Upper Faldonside, where I vaccinated Ailie4, aft + then to Beechwood also Forest, Tweed + Ettrick mills.5 Sent off report on chronic case.6 Had a crowd in at night.7 At 5 David operated on the little girl Smart.8 Baptie9 pulled 14lbs of plums.
1 Jemima Colville (1857-1932), ‘gentlewoman’, was recorded in the 1921 Census at Beechwood Villa, Selkirk, with a companion Naomi Thomson, two nurses Elsie Morrison Simpson and Margaret Henderson Sharp and two servants Charlotte C Rodgerson and Celia Annie [Armstrong ?], all living in.
2 Robert Irwin Richardson ‘Roy’ Dees (1904-about 1988), son of Robert Irwin Dees and Edith Mary Boileau Dees née Henderson.
3 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
4 Ailie Brack Boyd Wilson or Boyd-Wilson, later Milne (1890-1955).
5 Part of what appears to be Dr Muir’s continuing role in factory health and safety.
6 See Dr Muir’s diary entry for 30 September 1923.
7 For the evening consultation. This was evidently a new thing and Dr Muir frequently comments on the attendance.
8 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 (see diary entry for 30 September 1923).
9 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
[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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