Disease Patterns in Tea Garden Workers in Bangladesh

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Abstract
An attempt is made to ascertain health patterns in a Bangladesh tea garden population by using 3 parameters derived from crude data, i.e., causes of loss of working time, and of death and ages at death. Intestinal and respiratory infections account for half of the total loss of working time; and traditional tropical diseases, very little. The principal cause of death is cardiovascular disease, though this contributes very little to loss of working time. Intestinal infections are a major cause of death; respiratory infections are not. There is a marked and interesting difference between the male and female age-ranges in which death occurs. Health planning attention probably must be focused on intestinal and respiratory infections and attempts made to reduce the incidence by improved environmental hygiene.

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