The Secret Of The Tenements

Story 4 of 7 in The Seven Secrets of Marcus Orlando series, published in The Story-teller, March 1934. Reprinted as The Secret In The Slums in Secret Services, a collection of espionage stories by Frankau, 1934.
Marcus Orlando is a firm believer in leaving crime to the experts in CID and when CID asks for his help, he is surprised. The matter at hand is very serious and deals with an unusually higher level of infant mortality in the 12 slums of London - far more than poverty could explain, When Orlando looks into the matter, he is upset with what he finds, and with who is at fault.