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.