There was heavy rain last night as shown by the flooded river but it kept fair all day with [a] sharp W. wind. Barometer rose very slowly + at 7 p.m. stood at 28.65. Walked to Curror [?] Street to Drew Brown1 + Dunsdale, Mill Street (where Baptie2 caught me with a message to Elizabeth Martin, Philiphaugh Cottages).3 Then I came back to see D.C.A.4 about a notice I got re the Feu Duty, Forest Road, Kirkwynd [and] Rosemount. Dav.5 called in afternoon. Menzies6 tells me all our resignations are in.7 Nancy8 + Helen9 went for a motor run to Bemersyde + came back here for tea.
1 Drew Brown is so far unidentified.
2 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
3 Elizabeth Martin is so far unidentified.
4 David Carnegie Alexander (1856-1928), sometimes ‘Carnegie Alexander’ or ‘D.C.A.’, solicitor.
5 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
6 James Morris Menzies (1871-1926), M.B., Ch.M. Edin., 1894, M.D., 1902, of Ettrick Lodge, Selkirk.
7 An article in the British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3279, 3 November 1923, recorded that 94% of insurance practitioners had resigned in a show of “remarkable unanimity and determination” and that the Minister of Health had “receded from his original position” and given “specific assurances” to the representatives of the Insurance Acts Committee. The negotiators were seeking a specific concession with regard to rural practitioners The budget proposed for remuneration in the year 1924, to increase from £210,000 to £250,000, appears to have satisfied that demand. [“The Insurance Crisis: Emancipation.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3279, 1923, pp. 827–827. JSTOR. Accessed 23 Oct. 2023.]
8 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
9 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
[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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