| Description | Charlotte continues hospital visiting, while Mary is engaged in committee work, and takes a bible class. They socialise with Charlotte's brothers, Brice and Arty, and with Cecil, Ethel and the children. Charlotte also socialises with and writes letters to friends, and attends church regularly.
Charlotte suffers from various health problems during the course of the year. She continues to be treated for her prolapsed uterus, and Dr Bland also visits to treat her 'gouty hand' on 11 January. She complains of suffering from 'muscular rheumatism' on 8 February. Dr Bland visits to examine her heart, and she is treated with castor oil and drops of laudanum for diarrhoea on 16 July. She is also suffering from a headache and nettle rash on 20 July and her brother Brice visits with '4! large bottles of champagne to pick me up' on 25 July. Dr Bland visits on Christmas Day to treat Charlotte for bronchitis. Charlotte also records that Mary has her ears syringed by Dr Webb on 18 January and that 'Dr Webb came to vaccinate Mary on account of a smallpox outburst in Stepney' on 23 February where she was carrying out committee work.
Sidney pays his mother and sister a short visit on 27 February before returning to Westham. On 27 June Charlotte reports that Dr Chafy has offered him the living of Rous Lench, in the diocese of Worcester and he is 'gazetted' there on 6 October.
Particular entries concern the fitting of electric light to Charlotte's home. She 'settled about the Electric Light Installation and fittings' on 21 March and has electricians working in the house on 8 May. She writes that she 'began electric light' on 14 May, and this is fitted in Charlotte's bedroom on 25 October.
Charlotte also records details of the Coronation of George V and Queen Mary on 22 June at Westminster Abbey. Charlotte reads the full order of the Coronation service and Mary goes to see military procession and the king and queen on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral on 23 June.
The summer holiday is taken in Folkestone in August and September. Charlotte goes out in a bath chair on the Leas, and by Madeira walk, while Mary visits Harbledown for the day on 23 August and returns with flowers, grapes and apples.
Reading matter includes 'Life of Devotion', 'The Japanese Artist', 'The Wilderness Way', 'Stewart on Persia', 'Impressions of Mexico' and 'My Year in Italy'. |