INFORMATION concerning health-related know ledge and habits was obtained by means of question naire from fifty men aged between 40 and 55 years. Twenty-five were categorised as 'working class' and twenty-five as 'middle class'. Mean knowledge score was significantly higher in middle class subjects and this superiority was even more marked in middle class men whose parents were also middle class. However this difference in knowledge between classes is not associ ated with any class difference in health-related habits, although there was a significant positive correlation between knowledge score and habit score within the middle class sample.
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