Frost very slight + the roads almost inclined to be a little soft. Dull calm pleasant day on the whole. Did not see the new year in + heard none of the row. Did not hurry out as there is a very small list to start the New Year with. Walked to the smallpox hospital to see Nurse Wilkinson who is doing her quarantine there. After lunch with Jack + a lad Bartleman who is visiting him. Walked to Hartwoodmyres coming back through Haining. We all dined at Wellwood + spent a very pleasant evening.
1 For the first quarter of the 20th Century, two isolation units are shown on the relevant Ordnance Survey sheets, the larger described as Infectious Diseases Hospital, Mortuary etc No. at 6a Bleachfield Road, Selkirk, and a smaller, described as Small Pox Hospital, Selkirk Hills, at Buxton, grid reference NGR NT485,287. Further research is required.
2 Nurse Wilkinson is so far unidentified.
3 Dr Muir has put a tick in front of the word ‘after’, the Editor has no idea why.
4 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner and husband of Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), living at Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk.
5 Bartleman is so far unidentified.
6 Hartwoodmyres, Selkirk, NT43292,24874.
7 Wellwood was around this time owned by John Roberts senior (1845-1234), C.M.G. of Dunedin, New Zealand for John Roberts junior, Te Whare [Selkirk], but by 1914 John Roberts junior was the proprietor.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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