The earliest hospital care of mental diseases in New York was in the wards of the New York Hospital which was opened in 1791. A separate building for mental cases was ready for the reception of patients in 1808. The total number of cases treated up to July 1820 was 1,553. The Bloomingdale Asylum replaced this in 1821, on a piece of property which now belongs in part to Columbia University. Public patients were cared for at the expense of the state until the opening of the New York City Asylum in 1839. Church services were inaugurated in 1819. The hospital buildings furnished accommodations for about three hundred patients. In 1894 the property on Bloomingdale Road was abandoned and the hospital removed to White Plains in Westchester County. It is still known as the Bloomingdale Hospital and is supported entirely by public contributions and the income derived from the care of patients. It has about three hundred and fifty beds. The activities of the "Religious Society of Friends," which were indirectly responsible probably for the inception of the Pennsylvania Hospital, ultimately led to the establishment of the Friends' Asylum for the Insane at Frankford, Pennsylvania, in 1817. It was under sectarian control until 1834, when its doors were thrown open to all, without regard to religious belief. It claims to be the first institution "erected on this side of the Atlantic in which a chain was never used for the confinement of a patient."[13] The hospital is still in a flourishing condition and has accommodations for over two hundred patients.