In this task, you are given an input list. A list contains several comma-separated items written within brackets. You need to return the count of all the alphabetical elements in the given list. Return 0 if no alphabetical element in the list
['W', '5493', '6597', 'R', '5601', 'X', 'H', '1203', 'U', 'j', '8249', 'b', '149', 'V', '8681', 'z', '2163', 'e', '7549', '2723', '4737', 'B', 'P', '1861']