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It wasn't. Despite Captain Arthur Phillip's to try and keep the convicts as healthy as possible, typhoid, cholera and dysentery were prevalent among the convicts. Conditions below decks were unsanitary as bad weather prevented the convicts from going up on deck most of the time.

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