To maintain cleanliness and hygiene in the city, a special team named "Cleaner Column" was being taken care of. Chronologically precisely, in 1906 the first group for communal hygiene in Skopje was formed. The unit - "Cleaners squash" or "Cleaner column", was run as part of the then Skopje municipality and numbered from five to six employees. Their task was to sweep the streets, the area around the aries and the markets, but also to participate in the extinguishing of fires in the city. It was their duty to provide themselves with brooms that were most often made from willow trees by the river Vardar. These enthusiasts themselves made wooden trolleys in which they collected and trash.
In 1911, the cleaner group increased to fifteen historia2 employees in a contracted employment, and then it gets the name "Blegsia" as a metaphor for decoration, but also as a wish the city always be clean and orderly. Strict municipal measures and penalties were disciplined by citizens of Skopje. Thus, the established order and obligations of the citizens were regularly fulfilled: cleaning the space in front of the house (firstly by sprinkling with water, then sweeping), collecting garbage in the middle of the street, then the cleaners come and collect and deposit in the surrounding holes or use it as a natural fertilizer. Interestingly, employees of "Blegazija", whose number constantly varied, during the two Balkan and World War I, besides the regular work, also had the role of gravediggers, that is, buried the dead soldiers and citizens.
Public hygiene was the most prominent in the purity of the streets. With the development of Skopje after the First World War and the hygiene habits were constantly growing. Things were perfectly distributed and laid out. So, for the hygiene of the city and streets, the municipality was competent, and the hygiene of the yards and houses was taken care of by the owners themselves. Because of the large number of families who lived in one house and because of the complexity of their family ties, the authorities often interfered with these relationships and prescribed conditions for maintaining domestic hygiene and exposing the dirt from the yards. Special rules and obligations existed for releasing dirt from the toilets.
The biggest problems in maintaining the city hygiene were due to the lack of livestock and motor labor and materials for work. Precisely because cleaning was done with minimal money, street watering and cleaning of dust from the streets was limited.
