is higher when there is a pool, and therefore they always strive in that direction. For example, I have included a calculation for a steaming in the tenement house at Miła street 32. There were 32 flats to be disinfected in total. The House Committee paid 70 zl for the release of several of them. Sections got 190 zl from other flats. Together, this amounts to 260 zl. About 60 zl goes to pay for the institution of the Department of Health (more about which below). 200 zl is left, which is about 8 zl per point. Therefore, the section commander earns 12 zl, the director 24 zl, and the doctor 32 zl.
[5] The brigade pays a fixed tax from its budget to 1) inspectors—whose job is to check that everything has been carried out in orderly fashion—up to 200 zl. Weekly—250;461 2) director of the Department of Columns, Mr Lichter (through his secretary), for keeping the composition of the column unchanged and refraining from introducing any new personnel that might hamper the distribution of profits; 3) the chief inspector, Dr. Fedorowski; 4) the head of the Disciplinary Department, Mr Horal (through his secretary, Mrs Bursztyn) for nipping in the bud any disciplinary cases against members of the column.
These levies are about 25 % of the brigade’s total revenue. Particularly significant is the cooperation with the German inspectors; there are 3 of them: 2 German officers—oberdisinfector462 —and one Volksdeutsch in a Polish police uniform. They sign a list of dirty flats in blanco and do not interfere with the column in any way. They do not participate in the profits, because they are busy searching for bakeries, concealed mills, manufactures, etc., where they extort larger tributes. Under certain conditions, they even show empathy for the actions of the brigade. For example, during the steaming in the tenement at Nalewki Street 47, a connection was found between that and the neighbouring building. The head of the column approached the German oberdisinfector and told him simply that the brigade wanted to make some money and was asking for permission to close the neighbouring tenement house. The German issued the relevant order without any objection. A separate issue is cooperation with the Poles, which [6] lasted from July to December 1941. During that period, there were 12 active brigades, arranged in 2 groups of 6, led by the Polish doctors Dyczkowski and Janicki. Those brigades con
