A person who collected excrement from areas with no sewers.
each week the sanitary man would leave two pans for each toilet
Example sentencesExamples
- The sanitary man obviously hadn't been around recently.
- "You'll take the ashes and the rubbish too?" he said to the sanitary man.
- The sanitary man sometimes arrived at an inconvenient time.
- A fresh sanitary pan was replaced once a week by way of a trapdoor-like flap at the back, allowing the sanitary man to haul the used pan out and insert another.
- Throughout my school life, I was reminded that if I didn't perform well scholastically I might end up being a sanitary man.