Oey Djoen Hoat was a Netherlands-Indies physician who investigated the occurrence of xerophthalmie in the Regentschap Keboemen on Java, and whose figures Dr. C. E. Gomperts set beside his own from Groot-Atjeh as a comparison strongly in Java’s favour.
The Keboemen figures
Oey Djoen Hoat found among 4,532 boys examined 88 cases of xerophthalmia, and among 3,595 girls 20 cases — that is, about 2 per cent and ½ per cent of the children examined respectively.
Gomperts remarked that these values “steken zeer gunstig af bij onze statistiek” — compare very favourably with our statistics. His own survey of 1937 had found 459 cases among 11,400 children in Groot-Atjeh, about 4 per cent, with the rate among boys aged 1–2 reaching 7½ per cent.
The comparison forms part of Gomperts’s wider observation that the proportions in Groot-Atjeh appeared to differ from those on Java.
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Oriënteerend oogheelkundig onderzoek bij de Atjehsche bevolking van Groot-Atjeh gedurende 1937 (“Orienting Ophthalmological Survey among the Atjehnese Population of Groot-Atjeh during 1937”), by Dr. C. E. Gomperts, offprint from the Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië, Afl. 19, Deel 80 (1940), pp. 1191-1238 (Batavia-Centrum: G. Kolff & Co.). Received by the editors 25 October 1939. Offprint DLP-157, Bibliotheek KITLV.