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It will be readily imagined that the wastage of War chiefly 

 relates to veterinary disability, and only those, who have seen it 

 in concrete form, can have any conception of what it means. I 

 endeavoured to illustrate it in my previous paper on " Wastage 

 of Animals in War." Arrangements therefore, for disposal in 

 its varied forms were taken up by Veterinary Service, quite ■ 

 Automatically as it were, and as the Force increased, and War 

 became more intense and prolonged, a Disposal of Animals 

 Branch of the Veterinary Directorate was instituted to meet 

 the necessity for the co-ordination of the various channels of 

 disposal, the framing of contracts for the sale of animals for 

 purposes of food, the instaiUation of machinery for the abstraction 

 of by-products, and for the due accounting of the same. The 

 misfits, the vice cases, and the ancients from Eemount Service 

 were transferred to this organization for disposal. The latter 

 were comparatively few, for a Eemount Service in War has no 

 place for anything but ef&cient animals. Veterinary Service 

 in France was fortunate in securing the services of a young 

 officer for charge of the Disposal Section who not only was an 

 expert in the necessary machinery for By-products, but a 

 Chartered Accountant as well. 



