19th Century ward, or "salle hygiéniste"

Just beside the 17th Century ward, a 19th Century ward (or Salle hygiéniste) has been reconstructed inside the hospital-museum Notre Dame à la Rose in Lessines. Many things had changed also in religious respects, as it can be appreciated by the French sentence in a poster: "La liberté de conscience est garantie aux malades. - Pour que nos croyances soient respectées, commencons par respecter celles des autres"¹.

• Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l# | (August 2009), courtesy of Raphaël Debruyn and Marc Vuidar.

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Footnotes

1. See R.Debruyn (ed.), Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose: de l'hôpital séculaire au musée du 3ème millénaire, Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose, Lessines 2008, pp. 70-73.