Physical and Mental Health of Tannery Workers and Residential People of Hazaribag Area in Dhaka City

The present study was designed to investigate the effect of industrial pollution on the physical and mental health of the tannery workers as well as the related residential area’s people of Hagaribag in Dhaka city. One hundred and sixty (80 tannery workers and 80 residential area’s people) respondents were selected by purposive sampling method as samples for the present study. Three hypotheses were formulated to test the present study: i) Physical and mental health is positively related. ii) The physical health of Tannery area’s residential people would be better than that of tannery workers. iii) The mental health of Tannery area’s residential people would be better than that of tannery workers. For collecting data physical and mental health questionnaires were applied on the respondents of the present research. In order to analyze data, correlation co-efficient and z-test were applied on the scores obtained from both the questionnaires. The result presented in table-1 suggests that physical health is directly related to mental health. Table-2 suggests that physical health of related residential area’s people is better than that of tannery workers. Mental health of the related residential area’s people is better than that of tannery workers (Table-3). These results confirm the hypotheses. In fine it can be concluded that the physical health and the mental health are positively related. In addition, physical and mental health of related residential area’s people are better than those of tannery workers.