Health status of sewermen and street cleaning workers

ABSTRACT

This comparative study aimed to investigate the effect of exposure to sewer environment on health status of sewermen [n = 87] compared with street cleaning workers [n = 91]. Sewermen were found to have significantly more skin and kidney complaints than street cleaning workers. In addition, they had lower systolic blood pressure than the latter group. No difference was found between both groups as regards the Zung scale for depression, while sewermen showed significantly less mean anxiety score than the other group