“It appears that a woman can get 6 months now for communicating disease to a soldier or sailor, under regulation 40 D of DORA, & the soldier’s mere word is enough to convict her unless she is willing to be examined to prove that she is not diseased. Also her name is always published whether she is proved innocent or guilty, & the soldier’s name is never published.”
WEEK 42: (15th – 20th July 1918)
“We had some songs from D. and Nancy, & Deens told ecclesiastical funny stories – one almost a clerk who used to lead the hymns in some very street dissenting church, & when he got false teeth the congregation objected to his leading the hymns, saying it was instrumental music.”
WEEK 34: (20th – 26th May 1918)
“We had Mrs Callender & Mr Coates to tea, & each of them drank 3 cups of tea with a lot of sugar in each. I don’t see how they expect people’s allowance to last under such treatment; they ought to bring sugar if they require it. He showed us a photo of himself with his wife & child; the wife is Russian, a chemist & a writer of pamphlets, & very plain.”
WEEK 33: (13th – 19th May 1918)
“I visited the carstand Powers a.d. and found that Juley had been away in Wales visiting a sick brother. She had a lot of political talk in trains and things. I went to the election committee in the evening, Whittle, 5 male heads of wards, & Miss Skeffington & me. J. K. Walsh, W. Doyle, D. Grant, J. Wylie & I can’t remember the other.”