Special rules existed for the removal of garbage from the city. The government prescribed special fees from which the "Cleaner column" was financed. The rates for the fees were determined according to the area from which the garbage collection was collected. Thus, for the removal of garbage from houses in which there was a lounge, bedrooms, cabinets, a dining room and a kitchen, the citizens of Skopje paid 150 dinars a month. To clean garbage from stables, stables, cattle-brewers, goat shops were paid per head. For two heads 5 dinars, two to four - 10 dinars and four to six heads of 15 dinars. The exposure of the manure to the owner was an obligation of the owner. The cleaning of the stores cost 180 dinars, for hotels and cafes for 150 dinars, and for the cleaning of the anions, for cars, for cattle, baths and mills Skopjans had to allocate 200 dinars.
Later, with the division of ethnic Macedonia, Skopje in 1919 entered the newly established state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - SCS. With the formation of the new occupying authority, the real organized working part of the "Cleaner column" begins. It is becoming an integral part of the sanitary department in the municipality of the City of Skopje, later named as City Head of Skopje. In addition to being in charge of disposing of the garbage from the city, the "Cleaner Column" also took care of transportation of municipal construction material and for the streets on the outskirts of Skopje.
In the period from 1923 to 1926, the "Cleaner column" did not satisfy the needs of the city, since it had a small livestock and carts. Therefore, in 1929, the Court issued an order, according to which all citizens for the removal of the garbage should have purchased tin cans with a lid.
On the streets where the traffic took place, garbage was thrown, mines, trees were cut on the sidewalks, and barrels and crates were made. As a precautionary measure, orders were issued, for which contempt was levied against certain fines.
In the mid-1920s, the first "Guidelines for Maintaining Hygiene in the City" was adopted. The number of carriages, which were dragged first at the oxen, and later by horses, rises to forty, are buying the first self-sprinklers for flooding Skopje streets and the first trucks for collecting and transporting the municipal rubbish. This is also the time when there is no developed sewage system in Skopje so each house had its own septic tank. The city is rapidly developing in a modern and large center. The number of hotels and restaurants reaches the number of eighty, so special shelters are built, and automobile cisterns that replace the existing cars with barrels, used for this purpose, are being bought for unclean water.
