the flats, qualifying dirty premises [for disinfection]. Then he divides the total amount of premises qualified for disinfection into 5 equal parts, each assigned to a different section. The section, consisting, as we know, of the section commander and two employees, makes rounds of the premises, applying cresol and taking bedding and clothes to the disinfection chamber.
The nominal salary of a column member is 6 zlotys per day, but the Department of Health, in the absence of appropriate funds, pays only 4 zlotys, of which 10 % is further deducted for various types of municipal and insurance welfare. The salary is paid regularly at the beginning of each month in arrears. So far, employees have been paid only for days when they were actually working. Currently, an amendment is being introduced to the effect that an employee who did not miss a single day gets paid for the entire 30 days, and one who misses one day in the week does not receive any pay for Sunday either. The most important thing, however, for the column members is side revenue ranging on average from 10 to 20 zlotys per day. This revenue comes from bribes received for: releasing the flat from disinfection, permission to hide various objects, and finally for leaving bedding and clothes where they were found. Usually, it is the House Committee that pays for the exemption of a number of flats (the committee typically earns a lot for this type of transaction). If that is not the case, it is arranged on individual bases in a way that involves visiting subsequent flats and attempting to force money out of residents, including premises qualified as [4] clean. On average, it costs from 10 to 50 zl for a flat. In dirty flats, it costs a little more to leave belongings, and sometimes less depending on the owner’s wealth. It starts with 2 or 3 zl, and goes up to 50 zlotys, or in some cases even more. In most columns, all proceeds go to the pool, and are divided according to a system of points: physician—4 points, director—3 points, section commander—1.5 points, and employees—one point. 25 points in total. The entire profit is divided into 25 parts and is distributed among column members according to their points. It cannot, of course, be prevented that a certain percentage of income is always kept secret and does not affect the pool. In such a case, the doctor is interested in identifying as many flats as possible as dirty. The situation is different if the column does not have a pool. Then the doctor takes a fee for releasing the flat, and is therefore interested in having as many flats exempt from disinfection as he can. Members of the column work on their own, forcing as much as they can from dirty flats. Of course, the income of column members
