sanitary man

sanitary man
   a cleaner of lavatories
   Sanitary means pertaining to health:
    ... latrine buckets introduced which the sanitary men emptied every night. (F. Richards, 1933)
   For the avoidance of doubt, the old-fashioned sanitary inspector in Britain now calls himself a public health inspector. The American sanitation man remains a dustman in the British Isles.

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