Ablutions of non-celebrating communion distributing priest?

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According to the 1962 Missal, in Masses where a large amount of people receive communion and additional priests assist the celebrant in distribution communion, how are the ablutions of these priests fingers carried out afterwards?
 
Is there really no one that has any clue? Because I thought that however it is done in the EF, it could be done in the OF with EMHC:s, too.
 
Whenever we have another priest assisting with the distribution of Holy Communion, one of the altar boys washes his fingers with the jug and bowl used for the celebrating priest’s lavabo. The water is then poured down the sacrarium straight away.
 
You can pour down water containing sacred particles in the sacrarium?
 
That is what the sacrarium is for. It is used to dispose of holy things. Ideally, one should let the container with the Blessed Sacrament and water in it sit for awhile, to dissolve any remaining particles of the Host, then pour the contents down the sacrarium. However, we are not in a position to do that.

The other option is for one of the priests to drink the water after Mass.
 
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