Mild dull drizzling S.W. Miss Richards left this morning with the rest of the A.L.S. Company.1 I walked down Forest Road + then cycled to Hospital where there is a case of S.2, a little girl of Martin the baker3 who was in with it in May /22. Then I cycled to Whitmuirhall Toll + Goslawdale. The ice is entirely off the road + there is plenty “glaur”.4 Went to meeting of Nursing Association in Town Hall. Helen5 motored to Hawick with Nancy.6 Wrote Dora7 + sent her a Calendar of Haining in Snow.
1 Susan Richards, who had stayed at Thorncroft for two nights, was one of the performers with The Arts League of Service which had been performing in Selkirk, see Dr Muir’s diary entries for 10 and 11 December 1923.
2 There had been a prolonged outbreak of Scarlatina and Diphtheria in the Selkirk area during 1921 and 1922.
3 Assume Sybil Elliot Drummond Martin (1916-), Hawick-born daughter of William Martin, master baker, and Marion Lumsden Martin née Drummond, married February 1907 in Edinburgh. Her name is completely mangled in the 1921 Census but the family (including an elder brother Gideon) was recorded at 33 Market Place, Selkirk.
4 Soft, sticky mud [Dictionars o the Scots Leid].
5 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
6 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
7 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, who was living and working in Egypt at this time.
[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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