Actually had stewed fresh raspberries at dinner. Streets wet but no rain till the evenin. Some sunshine: S.W. [wind] Still cold. Message to Mrs Barnes, Curror Street1 who had fallen on her stair + hurt her back. Saw her again at night. Saw a few other town cases + was in the house from 11.30. Added up professional mileage from 1/4/22 to 31/3/2023 = 1263.582 Wrote Helen.3 Made out some of the books + sent for payment. Message to see a tramp at Lilliesleaf at 6.30 [?]. Motored there. It was a woman + her child, the former with mammary schirrus [scirrhous].4
1 There was more than one Barnes household in Curror Street, Selkirk at this time so Mrs Barnes cannot be identified with confidence.
2 As noted in the discussions at the British Medical Association (see reference in Dr Muir’s diary for 3 October 1923), mileage and capitation were key parts of the general practitioners’ contracts at this time.
3 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper, who had been away from Selkirk for a long time since she and Dr Muir travelled south in July 1923.
4 Neither the mother nor the child is readily identifiable.
[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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