What is United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare?
{{multiple image | footer = The seal and flag of the HEW | width1 = 100 | image1 = Seal of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.svg | alt1 = Seal of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare | width2 = 170 | image2 = Flag of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.png | alt2 = Flag of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare }} The '''United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare''' (also known as '''HEW''') was a [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]]-level department of the [[United States]] government from 1953 until 1979. It was administered by the [[United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare]]. In 1979, a separate [[United States Department of Education|Department of Education]] (ED) was created from this department, and HEW was renamed as the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Department of Health and Human Services]] (HHS). == History == President Warren G. [[Warren G. Harding|Harding]] proposed a Department of Education and Welfare as early as 1923, and similar proposals were also recommended by subsequent presidents, but for various reasons was not implemented.<ref name='Eisenhower 1953-03-12'>{{cite web |url=http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title5a/5a_4_49_2_.html |title=Message of the President |access-date=2008-03-02 |last=Eisenhower |first=Dwight |date=1953-03-12 |archive-date=2008-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020043107/http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title5a/5a_4_49_2_.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was only enacted as part of ''Reorganization Plan Number 1 of 1953'', transmitted to Congress by President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] on March 12, 1953. HEW ran a Community Public Health Program, which was famous for its grants to cities like Chicago for rat control. It ran a Solid Waste program focused on municipal waste issues, like how to build sanitary landfills rather than dumps. It also had a radiation program under which it wrote standards