The barometer fell ¾ inch during the night + it must have rained heavily as the river was very full. I have less + less to do.1 Walked to Viewfield, Wellwood, Curror Street, Dunsdale, Kilncroft + Kirkwynd + was finished by 12 o’clock. Finished the record cards to date. At Viewfield2 Miss Wallace3 came up + Dav.4 opened an abscess in her neck. The conference of Local Insurance + Panel Commttee in London yesterday refused the Government’s offer + I sent in my resignation today.5 It was raining at night.
1 This has been Dr Muir’s occasional complaint since creating a medical Co-partnership with Dr David Graham in 1920.
2 Viewfield, the Muir and Graham medical partnership’s nursing home at the top of Viewfield Park and immediately behind the Victoria Halls.
3 Miss Wallace was Jane Wallace (1874-), sometime nurse to the Roberts children, Dr Muir’s grandchildren. For detailed notes see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 11 September 1923.
4 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
5 Medical practitioners’ mass resignation was a tactic in the Insurance Acts Committee’s negotiation with the Minister of Health seeking concessions on the Medical Insurance Scheme and on the budget allocated for remuneration.
[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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