There was less frost but as had been a slight sprinkling of snow the going was as bad as ever. However it became fresher and from 12.30 onwards there was [a] steady fall of slushy rain + snow. I walked to Elmrow, Curror Street, Dunsdale + landed at Viewfield1 where D.2 operated on little Nancy Scott3 for appendicular colic. After that I saw some new cases. I was not out after 1.30. The papers are full of political + election news.4
1 Viewfield, the Muir and Graham medical partnership’s nursing home at the top of Viewfield Park and immediately behind the Victoria Halls.
2 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
3 The best fit is Nancy Scott, born at Minto in 1923.
4 The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923.
[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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