Drizzling in the morning it fair in Edinburgh, coldish. Next to Edinburgh by 10.13. Mrs Mack + Erskine1 travelled by same train. Took Jean2 some flowers. Found her very well + busy as usual. Went to the Picture House for an hour + got some lunch + at 2.30 went with the S.R.P. + J.A. Sub-committee to a meeting with the Scottish Board of Health. Went back to the Picture House for a little + came out with the 6. There is evidently going to be some trouble over the mileage grant as well as the Capitation.3 Barbara4 called to say goodbye. She goes to London tomorrow en route for New Zealand.
1 Dr Muir’s generous friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk and James Erskine Harper (1887-1953), her son.
2 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s widowed eldest daughter. She had married, 15 June 1920 at Mayfield U.F. Church, Newington, Edinburgh, Frederick Charles Pike (d.1921), theatrical agent. Jean ran a tea shop in Newington after the First World War.
3 It is not easy to identify the various committees and sub-committees involved but the pressures on the budget of the insurance-based health system was described as “The Insurance Crisis” in the British Medical Journal. The gist of the debate (including some quite intemperate language) is published in an Editorial report dated 27 October 1923 [“The Insurance Crisis.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3278, 1923, pp. 771–72. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20434635. Accessed 3 Oct. 2023.]
4 Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), daughter of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir. At 21 she was leaving for what turned out to be a new life in New Zealand.
[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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